I want to write a string to a file which expects an 8-bit US ASCII encoding.
Which encoding scheme should I use for the method String.getBytes(encodingScheme)?
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I want to write a string to a file which expects an 8-bit US
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I want to write a string to a file which expects an 8-bit US ASCII encoding.
Which encoding scheme should I use for the method String.getBytes(encodingScheme)?
Thanks.
ASCII is a 7bit encoding scheme, there is no “8-bit ASCII”.
However, many encodings are ASCII-compatible, and some are 8bit transparent (i.e. every binary series maps to a valid character string, and vice versa, useful if you’re sending binary data over a character channel without encoding it in base64 or so). If you just want to be ASCII-compatible,
UTF-8is the best choice; if you need 8 bit transparency,ISO-8859-1.Note that the above advice is only useful if you want to transport ASCII-only strings or 8bit binary ones. In most cases, you actually want to transfer arbitrary strings, and there’s no way around finding the proper encoding for these.