Java Tutorial/File/CharSet

CharSet alias list

import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Map charsets = Charset.availableCharsets();
    Iterator iterator = charsets.values().iterator();
    while (iterator.hasNext()) {
      Charset cs = (Charset) iterator.next();
      System.out.print(cs.displayName());
      if (cs.isRegistered()) {
        System.out.print(" (registered): ");
      } else {
        System.out.print(" (unregistered): ");
      }
      System.out.print(cs.name());
      Iterator names = cs.aliases().iterator();
      while (names.hasNext()) {
        System.out.print(", ");
        System.out.print(names.next());
      }
      System.out.println();
    }
  }
}

Big5 (registered): Big5, csBig5
Big5-HKSCS (registered): Big5-HKSCS, big5-hkscs, big5hk, big5-hkscs:unicode3.0, big5hkscs, Big5_HKSCS
EUC-JP (registered): EUC-JP, eucjis, x-eucjp, csEUCPkdFmtjapanese, eucjp, Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese, x-euc-jp, euc_jp
EUC-KR (registered): EUC-KR, ksc5601, 5601, ksc5601_1987, ksc_5601, ksc5601-1987, euc_kr, ks_c_5601-1987, euckr, csEUCKR
GB18030 (registered): GB18030, gb18030-2000
GB2312 (registered): GB2312, gb2312-1980, gb2312, EUC_CN, gb2312-80, euc-cn, euccn, x-EUC-CN
GBK (registered): GBK, windows-936, CP936
IBM-Thai (registered): IBM-Thai, ibm-838, ibm838, 838, cp838
IBM00858 (registered): IBM00858, cp858, ccsid00858, cp00858, 858
IBM01140 (registered): IBM01140, 1140, ccsid01140, cp01140, cp1140
IBM01141 (registered): IBM01141, cp01141, cp1141, ccsid01141, 1141
IBM01142 (registered): IBM01142, cp01142, cp1142, ccsid01142, 1142
IBM01143 (registered): IBM01143, 1143, cp01143, cp1143, ccsid01143
IBM01144 (registered): IBM01144, cp01144, cp1144, 1144, ccsid01144
IBM01145 (registered): IBM01145, ccsid01145, cp01145, 1145, cp1145
IBM01146 (registered): IBM01146, ccsid01146, cp1146, 1146, cp01146
IBM01147 (registered): IBM01147, cp1147, 1147, ccsid01147, cp01147
IBM01148 (registered): IBM01148, cp01148, cp1148, ccsid01148, 1148
IBM01149 (registered): IBM01149, cp1149, ccsid01149, 1149, cp01149
IBM037 (registered): IBM037, csIBM037, cpibm37, cp037, cs-ebcdic-cp-us, ibm-037, ibm-37, cs-ebcdic-cp-ca, cs-ebcdic-cp-wt, cs-ebcdic-cp-nl, ibm037, 037
IBM1026 (registered): IBM1026, 1026, ibm1026, cp1026, ibm-1026
IBM1047 (registered): IBM1047, 1047, ibm-1047, cp1047
IBM273 (registered): IBM273, ibm273, 273, cp273, ibm-273
IBM277 (registered): IBM277, ibm277, cp277, ibm-277, 277
IBM278 (registered): IBM278, csIBM278, ibm278, cp278, ebcdic-cp-se, 278, ibm-278, ebcdic-sv
IBM280 (registered): IBM280, ibm280, cp280, 280, ibm-280
IBM284 (registered): IBM284, cpibm284, csIBM284, ibm-284, ibm284, 284, cp284
IBM285 (registered): IBM285, 285, ebcdic-cp-gb, ibm-285, csIBM285, cp285, ibm285, cpibm285, ebcdic-gb
IBM297 (registered): IBM297, csIBM297, ebcdic-cp-fr, cp297, ibm297, ibm-297, 297, cpibm297
IBM420 (registered): IBM420, ibm420, 420, ebcdic-cp-ar1, csIBM420, ibm-420, cp420
IBM424 (registered): IBM424, cp424, 424, ebcdic-cp-he, ibm424, csIBM424, ibm-424
IBM437 (registered): IBM437, windows-437, cspc8codepage437, ibm437, cp437, 437, ibm-437
IBM500 (registered): IBM500, 500, ebcdic-cp-ch, ebcdic-cp-bh, ibm-500, csIBM500, cp500, ibm500
IBM775 (registered): IBM775, ibm775, cp775, ibm-775, 775
IBM850 (registered): IBM850, ibm-850, 850, ibm850, cspc850multilingual, cp850
IBM852 (registered): IBM852, 852, ibm-852, csPCp852, cp852, ibm852
IBM855 (registered): IBM855, 855, ibm855, cp855, cspcp855, ibm-855
IBM857 (registered): IBM857, cp857, ibm857, csIBM857, 857, ibm-857
IBM860 (registered): IBM860, ibm860, ibm-860, csIBM860, cp860, 860
IBM861 (registered): IBM861, csIBM861, ibm861, 861, cp861, ibm-861
IBM862 (registered): IBM862, cp862, ibm862, 862, ibm-862, csIBM862
IBM863 (registered): IBM863, cp863, csIBM863, ibm863, 863, ibm-863
IBM864 (registered): IBM864, csIBM864, ibm-864, 864, ibm864, cp864
IBM865 (registered): IBM865, ibm-865, csIBM865, 865, ibm865, cp865
IBM866 (registered): IBM866, 866, ibm-866, csIBM866, ibm866, cp866
IBM868 (registered): IBM868, cp-ar, 868, ibm868, csIBM868, ibm-868, cp868
IBM869 (registered): IBM869, ibm869, ibm-869, 869, cp869, csIBM869, cp-gr
IBM870 (registered): IBM870, ebcdic-cp-yu, ibm870, ibm-870, 870, csIBM870, cp870, ebcdic-cp-roece
IBM871 (registered): IBM871, csIBM871, ibm-871, cp871, ebcdic-cp-is, 871, ibm871
IBM918 (registered): IBM918, ibm-918, 918, cp918, ebcdic-cp-ar2
ISO-2022-CN (registered): ISO-2022-CN, csISO2022CN, ISO2022CN
ISO-2022-JP (registered): ISO-2022-JP, jis, jis_encoding, csjisencoding, csISO2022JP, iso2022jp
ISO-2022-KR (registered): ISO-2022-KR, ISO2022KR, csISO2022KR
ISO-8859-1 (registered): ISO-8859-1, iso-ir-100, 8859_1, ISO_8859-1, ISO8859_1, 819, csISOLatin1, IBM-819, ISO_8859-1:1987, latin1, cp819, ISO8859-1, IBM819, ISO_8859_1, l1
ISO-8859-13 (registered): ISO-8859-13, ISO8859-13, 8859_13, iso8859_13, iso_8859-13
ISO-8859-15 (registered): ISO-8859-15, 8859_15, csISOlatin9, IBM923, cp923, 923, L9, IBM-923, ISO8859-15, LATIN9, ISO_8859-15, LATIN0, csISOlatin0, ISO8859_15_FDIS, ISO-8859-15, ISO8859_15
ISO-8859-2 (registered): ISO-8859-2, ibm912, l2, ibm-912, cp912, ISO_8859-2:1987, ISO_8859-2, latin2, csISOLatin2, iso8859_2, 912, 8859_2, ISO8859-2, iso-ir-101
ISO-8859-3 (registered): ISO-8859-3, iso8859_3, cp913, csISOLatin3, ibm-913, ISO_8859-3, 913, ISO8859-3, 8859_3, ibm913, iso-ir-109, ISO_8859-3:1988, latin3, l3
ISO-8859-4 (registered): ISO-8859-4, iso-ir-110, l4, 8859_4, ibm914, latin4, ibm-914, csISOLatin4, iso8859_4, iso8859-4, cp914, 914, ISO_8859-4:1988, ISO_8859-4
ISO-8859-5 (registered): ISO-8859-5, 915, ISO_8859-5:1988, iso8859_5, cp915, ibm915, ISO_8859-5, ISO8859-5, csISOLatinCyrillic, cyrillic, 8859_5, iso-ir-144, ibm-915
ISO-8859-6 (registered): ISO-8859-6, 8859_6, arabic, ibm-1089, iso8859_6, ISO_8859-6, iso-ir-127, ibm1089, ISO_8859-6:1987, ECMA-114, 1089, csISOLatinArabic, ISO8859-6, ASMO-708, cp1089
ISO-8859-7 (registered): ISO-8859-7, sun_eu_greek, 8859_7, iso-ir-126, ISO_8859-7:1987, ibm-813, iso8859_7, ISO_8859-7, csISOLatinGreek, greek8, ECMA-118, ibm813, ELOT_928, iso8859-7, cp813, greek, 813
ISO-8859-8 (registered): ISO-8859-8, iso-ir-138, ibm-916, iso8859_8, cp916, ISO8859-8, ISO_8859-8:1988, hebrew, 8859_8, csISOLatinHebrew, ibm916, 916, ISO_8859-8
ISO-8859-9 (registered): ISO-8859-9, cp920, l5, ISO_8859-9, ibm-920, csISOLatin5, 8859_9, iso-ir-148, latin5, 920, ISO8859-9, ibm920, ISO_8859-9:1989, iso8859_9
JIS_X0201 (registered): JIS_X0201, JIS_X0201, X0201, JIS0201, csHalfWidthKatakana
JIS_X0212-1990 (registered): JIS_X0212-1990, jis_x0212-1990, iso-ir-159, x0212, JIS0212, csISO159JISX02121990
KOI8-R (registered): KOI8-R, koi8, koi8_r, cskoi8r
Shift_JIS (registered): Shift_JIS, shift-jis, shift_jis, x-sjis, ms_kanji, csShiftJIS, sjis
TIS-620 (registered): TIS-620, tis620.2533, tis620
US-ASCII (registered): US-ASCII, ISO646-US, IBM367, ASCII, cp367, default, ascii7, ANSI_X3.4-1986, iso-ir-6, us, 646, iso_646.irv:1983, csASCII, ANSI_X3.4-1968, ISO_646.irv:1991
UTF-16 (registered): UTF-16, utf16, UTF_16
UTF-16BE (registered): UTF-16BE, X-UTF-16BE, UnicodeBigUnmarked, UTF_16BE, ISO-10646-UCS-2
UTF-16LE (registered): UTF-16LE, UnicodeLittleUnmarked, X-UTF-16LE, UTF_16LE
UTF-8 (registered): UTF-8, UTF8, unicode-1-1-utf-8
windows-1250 (registered): windows-1250, cp1250, cp5346
windows-1251 (registered): windows-1251, ansi-1251, cp1251, cp5347
windows-1252 (registered): windows-1252, cp1252, cp5348
windows-1253 (registered): windows-1253, cp1253, cp5349
windows-1254 (registered): windows-1254, cp5350, cp1254
windows-1255 (registered): windows-1255, cp1255
windows-1256 (registered): windows-1256, cp1256
windows-1257 (registered): windows-1257, cp1257, cp5353
windows-1258 (registered): windows-1258, cp1258
windows-31j (registered): windows-31j, csWindows31J, windows-932, MS932
x-Big5-Solaris (unregistered): x-Big5-Solaris, Big5_Solaris
x-euc-jp-linux (unregistered): x-euc-jp-linux, euc_jp_linux, euc-jp-linux
x-EUC-TW (unregistered): x-EUC-TW, cns11643, euc_tw, EUC-TW, euctw
x-eucJP-Open (unregistered): x-eucJP-Open, EUC_JP_Solaris, eucJP-open
x-IBM1006 (unregistered): x-IBM1006, cp1006, ibm1006, 1006, ibm-1006
x-IBM1025 (unregistered): x-IBM1025, ibm1025, 1025, cp1025, ibm-1025
x-IBM1046 (unregistered): x-IBM1046, ibm1046, 1046, cp1046, ibm-1046
x-IBM1097 (unregistered): x-IBM1097, ibm1097, 1097, cp1097, ibm-1097
x-IBM1098 (unregistered): x-IBM1098, cp1098, ibm-1098, ibm1098, 1098
x-IBM1112 (unregistered): x-IBM1112, cp1112, 1112, ibm1112, ibm-1112
x-IBM1122 (unregistered): x-IBM1122, ibm-1122, 1122, cp1122, ibm1122
x-IBM1123 (unregistered): x-IBM1123, cp1123, ibm1123, ibm-1123, 1123
x-IBM1124 (unregistered): x-IBM1124, cp1124, ibm1124, ibm-1124, 1124
x-IBM1381 (unregistered): x-IBM1381, 1381, cp1381, ibm1381, ibm-1381
x-IBM1383 (unregistered): x-IBM1383, ibm1383, ibm-1383, cp1383, 1383
x-IBM33722 (unregistered): x-IBM33722, ibm-33722, cp33722, ibm-33722_vascii_vpua, ibm-5050, ibm33722, 33722
x-IBM737 (unregistered): x-IBM737, ibm-737, ibm737, cp737, 737
x-IBM856 (unregistered): x-IBM856, ibm-856, 856, ibm856, cp856
x-IBM874 (unregistered): x-IBM874, cp874, ibm874, ibm-874, 874
x-IBM875 (unregistered): x-IBM875, ibm875, ibm-875, 875, cp875
x-IBM921 (unregistered): x-IBM921, 921, cp921, ibm921, ibm-921
x-IBM922 (unregistered): x-IBM922, cp922, ibm922, ibm-922, 922
x-IBM930 (unregistered): x-IBM930, cp930, 930, ibm930, ibm-930
x-IBM933 (unregistered): x-IBM933, ibm933, cp933, 933, ibm-933
x-IBM935 (unregistered): x-IBM935, 935, cp935, ibm935, ibm-935
x-IBM937 (unregistered): x-IBM937, cp937, ibm-937, ibm937, 937
x-IBM939 (unregistered): x-IBM939, ibm-939, ibm939, cp939, 939
x-IBM942 (unregistered): x-IBM942, cp942, ibm942, ibm-942, 942
x-IBM942C (unregistered): x-IBM942C, ibm942C, cp942C, ibm-942C, 942C
x-IBM943 (unregistered): x-IBM943, ibm943, ibm-943, cp943, 943
x-IBM943C (unregistered): x-IBM943C, ibm-943C, ibm943C, 943C, cp943C
x-IBM948 (unregistered): x-IBM948, 948, ibm-948, cp948, ibm948
x-IBM949 (unregistered): x-IBM949, ibm-949, cp949, 949, ibm949
x-IBM949C (unregistered): x-IBM949C, cp949C, 949C, ibm949C, ibm-949C
x-IBM950 (unregistered): x-IBM950, 950, cp950, ibm-950, ibm950
x-IBM964 (unregistered): x-IBM964, 964, cp964, ibm-964, ibm964
x-IBM970 (unregistered): x-IBM970, ibm970, 970, cp970, ibm-eucKR, ibm-970
x-ISCII91 (unregistered): x-ISCII91, iscii, ST_SEV_358-88, iso-ir-153, csISO153GOST1976874, ISCII91
x-ISO-2022-CN-CNS (unregistered): x-ISO-2022-CN-CNS, ISO2022CN_CNS, ISO-2022-CN-CNS
x-ISO-2022-CN-GB (unregistered): x-ISO-2022-CN-GB, ISO-2022-CN-GB, ISO2022CN_GB
x-iso-8859-11 (unregistered): x-iso-8859-11, iso-8859-11, iso8859_11
x-JIS0208 (unregistered): x-JIS0208, JIS0208, csISO87JISX0208, x0208, JIS_C6226-1983, JIS_X0208-1983, iso-ir-87
x-JISAutoDetect (unregistered): x-JISAutoDetect, JISAutoDetect
x-Johab (unregistered): x-Johab, johab, ms1361, ksc5601-1992, ksc5601_1992
x-MacArabic (unregistered): x-MacArabic, MacArabic
x-MacCentralEurope (unregistered): x-MacCentralEurope, MacCentralEurope
x-MacCroatian (unregistered): x-MacCroatian, MacCroatian
x-MacCyrillic (unregistered): x-MacCyrillic, MacCyrillic
x-MacDingbat (unregistered): x-MacDingbat, MacDingbat
x-MacGreek (unregistered): x-MacGreek, MacGreek
x-MacHebrew (unregistered): x-MacHebrew, MacHebrew
x-MacIceland (unregistered): x-MacIceland, MacIceland
x-MacRoman (unregistered): x-MacRoman, MacRoman
x-MacRomania (unregistered): x-MacRomania, MacRomania
x-MacSymbol (unregistered): x-MacSymbol, MacSymbol
x-MacThai (unregistered): x-MacThai, MacThai
x-MacTurkish (unregistered): x-MacTurkish, MacTurkish
x-MacUkraine (unregistered): x-MacUkraine, MacUkraine
x-MS950-HKSCS (unregistered): x-MS950-HKSCS, MS950_HKSCS
x-mswin-936 (unregistered): x-mswin-936, ms936, ms_936
x-PCK (unregistered): x-PCK, pck
x-windows-874 (unregistered): x-windows-874, windows-874, ms874, ms-874
x-windows-949 (unregistered): x-windows-949, windows949, ms_949, ms949
x-windows-950 (unregistered): x-windows-950, windows-950, ms950

CharSet Lister

import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Map charsets = Charset.availableCharsets();
    Iterator iterator = charsets.keySet().iterator();
    while (iterator.hasNext()) {
      System.out.println(iterator.next());
    }
  }
}

Big5
Big5-HKSCS
EUC-JP
EUC-KR
GB18030
GB2312
GBK
IBM-Thai
IBM00858
IBM01140
IBM01141
IBM01142
IBM01143
IBM01144
IBM01145
IBM01146
IBM01147
IBM01148
IBM01149
IBM037
IBM1026
IBM1047
IBM273
IBM277
IBM278
IBM280
IBM284
IBM285
IBM297
IBM420
IBM424
IBM437
IBM500
IBM775
IBM850
IBM852
IBM855
IBM857
IBM860
IBM861
IBM862
IBM863
IBM864
IBM865
IBM866
IBM868
IBM869
IBM870
IBM871
IBM918
ISO-2022-CN
ISO-2022-JP
ISO-2022-KR
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-13
ISO-8859-15
ISO-8859-2
ISO-8859-3
ISO-8859-4
ISO-8859-5
ISO-8859-6
ISO-8859-7
ISO-8859-8
ISO-8859-9
JIS_X0201
JIS_X0212-1990
KOI8-R
Shift_JIS
TIS-620
US-ASCII
UTF-16
UTF-16BE
UTF-16LE
UTF-8
windows-1250
windows-1251
windows-1252
windows-1253
windows-1254
windows-1255
windows-1256
windows-1257
windows-1258
windows-31j
x-Big5-Solaris
x-euc-jp-linux
x-EUC-TW
x-eucJP-Open
x-IBM1006
x-IBM1025
x-IBM1046
x-IBM1097
x-IBM1098
x-IBM1112
x-IBM1122
x-IBM1123
x-IBM1124
x-IBM1381
x-IBM1383
x-IBM33722
x-IBM737
x-IBM856
x-IBM874
x-IBM875
x-IBM921
x-IBM922
x-IBM930
x-IBM933
x-IBM935
x-IBM937
x-IBM939
x-IBM942
x-IBM942C
x-IBM943
x-IBM943C
x-IBM948
x-IBM949
x-IBM949C
x-IBM950
x-IBM964
x-IBM970
x-ISCII91
x-ISO-2022-CN-CNS
x-ISO-2022-CN-GB
x-iso-8859-11
x-JIS0208
x-JISAutoDetect
x-Johab
x-MacArabic
x-MacCentralEurope
x-MacCroatian
x-MacCyrillic
x-MacDingbat
x-MacGreek
x-MacHebrew
x-MacIceland
x-MacRoman
x-MacRomania
x-MacSymbol
x-MacThai
x-MacTurkish
x-MacUkraine
x-MS950-HKSCS
x-mswin-936
x-PCK
x-windows-874
x-windows-949
x-windows-950

Displays Available Charsets and aliases

import java.nio.charset.*;
import java.util.*;
public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Map charSets = Charset.availableCharsets();
    Iterator it = charSets.keySet().iterator();
    while(it.hasNext()) {
      String csName = (String)it.next();
      System.out.print(csName);
      Iterator aliases = ((Charset)charSets.get(csName))
        .aliases().iterator();
      if(aliases.hasNext())
        System.out.print(": ");
      while(aliases.hasNext()) {
        System.out.print(aliases.next());
        if(aliases.hasNext())
          System.out.print(", ");
      }
      System.out.println();
    }
  }
}
/*
*/

Big5: csBig5
Big5-HKSCS: big5-hkscs, big5hk, big5-hkscs:unicode3.0, big5hkscs, Big5_HKSCS
EUC-JP: eucjis, x-eucjp, csEUCPkdFmtjapanese, eucjp, Extended_UNIX_Code_Packed_Format_for_Japanese, x-euc-jp, euc_jp
EUC-KR: ksc5601, 5601, ksc5601_1987, ksc_5601, ksc5601-1987, euc_kr, ks_c_5601-1987, euckr, csEUCKR
GB18030: gb18030-2000
GB2312: gb2312-1980, gb2312, EUC_CN, gb2312-80, euc-cn, euccn, x-EUC-CN
GBK: windows-936, CP936
IBM-Thai: ibm-838, ibm838, 838, cp838
IBM00858: cp858, ccsid00858, cp00858, 858
IBM01140: 1140, ccsid01140, cp01140, cp1140
IBM01141: cp01141, cp1141, ccsid01141, 1141
IBM01142: cp01142, cp1142, ccsid01142, 1142
IBM01143: 1143, cp01143, cp1143, ccsid01143
IBM01144: cp01144, cp1144, 1144, ccsid01144
IBM01145: ccsid01145, cp01145, 1145, cp1145
IBM01146: ccsid01146, cp1146, 1146, cp01146
IBM01147: cp1147, 1147, ccsid01147, cp01147
IBM01148: cp01148, cp1148, ccsid01148, 1148
IBM01149: cp1149, ccsid01149, 1149, cp01149
IBM037: csIBM037, cpibm37, cp037, cs-ebcdic-cp-us, ibm-037, ibm-37, cs-ebcdic-cp-ca, cs-ebcdic-cp-wt, cs-ebcdic-cp-nl, ibm037, 037
IBM1026: 1026, ibm1026, cp1026, ibm-1026
IBM1047: 1047, ibm-1047, cp1047
IBM273: ibm273, 273, cp273, ibm-273
IBM277: ibm277, cp277, ibm-277, 277
IBM278: csIBM278, ibm278, cp278, ebcdic-cp-se, 278, ibm-278, ebcdic-sv
IBM280: ibm280, cp280, 280, ibm-280
IBM284: cpibm284, csIBM284, ibm-284, ibm284, 284, cp284
IBM285: 285, ebcdic-cp-gb, ibm-285, csIBM285, cp285, ibm285, cpibm285, ebcdic-gb
IBM297: csIBM297, ebcdic-cp-fr, cp297, ibm297, ibm-297, 297, cpibm297
IBM420: ibm420, 420, ebcdic-cp-ar1, csIBM420, ibm-420, cp420
IBM424: cp424, 424, ebcdic-cp-he, ibm424, csIBM424, ibm-424
IBM437: windows-437, cspc8codepage437, ibm437, cp437, 437, ibm-437
IBM500: 500, ebcdic-cp-ch, ebcdic-cp-bh, ibm-500, csIBM500, cp500, ibm500
IBM775: ibm775, cp775, ibm-775, 775
IBM850: ibm-850, 850, ibm850, cspc850multilingual, cp850
IBM852: 852, ibm-852, csPCp852, cp852, ibm852
IBM855: 855, ibm855, cp855, cspcp855, ibm-855
IBM857: cp857, ibm857, csIBM857, 857, ibm-857
IBM860: ibm860, ibm-860, csIBM860, cp860, 860
IBM861: csIBM861, ibm861, 861, cp861, ibm-861
IBM862: cp862, ibm862, 862, ibm-862, csIBM862
IBM863: cp863, csIBM863, ibm863, 863, ibm-863
IBM864: csIBM864, ibm-864, 864, ibm864, cp864
IBM865: ibm-865, csIBM865, 865, ibm865, cp865
IBM866: 866, ibm-866, csIBM866, ibm866, cp866
IBM868: cp-ar, 868, ibm868, csIBM868, ibm-868, cp868
IBM869: ibm869, ibm-869, 869, cp869, csIBM869, cp-gr
IBM870: ebcdic-cp-yu, ibm870, ibm-870, 870, csIBM870, cp870, ebcdic-cp-roece
IBM871: csIBM871, ibm-871, cp871, ebcdic-cp-is, 871, ibm871
IBM918: ibm-918, 918, cp918, ebcdic-cp-ar2
ISO-2022-CN: csISO2022CN, ISO2022CN
ISO-2022-JP: jis, jis_encoding, csjisencoding, csISO2022JP, iso2022jp
ISO-2022-KR: ISO2022KR, csISO2022KR
ISO-8859-1: iso-ir-100, 8859_1, ISO_8859-1, ISO8859_1, 819, csISOLatin1, IBM-819, ISO_8859-1:1987, latin1, cp819, ISO8859-1, IBM819, ISO_8859_1, l1
ISO-8859-13: ISO8859-13, 8859_13, iso8859_13, iso_8859-13
ISO-8859-15: 8859_15, csISOlatin9, IBM923, cp923, 923, L9, IBM-923, ISO8859-15, LATIN9, ISO_8859-15, LATIN0, csISOlatin0, ISO8859_15_FDIS, ISO-8859-15, ISO8859_15
ISO-8859-2: ibm912, l2, ibm-912, cp912, ISO_8859-2:1987, ISO_8859-2, latin2, csISOLatin2, iso8859_2, 912, 8859_2, ISO8859-2, iso-ir-101
ISO-8859-3: iso8859_3, cp913, csISOLatin3, ibm-913, ISO_8859-3, 913, ISO8859-3, 8859_3, ibm913, iso-ir-109, ISO_8859-3:1988, latin3, l3
ISO-8859-4: iso-ir-110, l4, 8859_4, ibm914, latin4, ibm-914, csISOLatin4, iso8859_4, iso8859-4, cp914, 914, ISO_8859-4:1988, ISO_8859-4
ISO-8859-5: 915, ISO_8859-5:1988, iso8859_5, cp915, ibm915, ISO_8859-5, ISO8859-5, csISOLatinCyrillic, cyrillic, 8859_5, iso-ir-144, ibm-915
ISO-8859-6: 8859_6, arabic, ibm-1089, iso8859_6, ISO_8859-6, iso-ir-127, ibm1089, ISO_8859-6:1987, ECMA-114, 1089, csISOLatinArabic, ISO8859-6, ASMO-708, cp1089
ISO-8859-7: sun_eu_greek, 8859_7, iso-ir-126, ISO_8859-7:1987, ibm-813, iso8859_7, ISO_8859-7, csISOLatinGreek, greek8, ECMA-118, ibm813, ELOT_928, iso8859-7, cp813, greek, 813
ISO-8859-8: iso-ir-138, ibm-916, iso8859_8, cp916, ISO8859-8, ISO_8859-8:1988, hebrew, 8859_8, csISOLatinHebrew, ibm916, 916, ISO_8859-8
ISO-8859-9: cp920, l5, ISO_8859-9, ibm-920, csISOLatin5, 8859_9, iso-ir-148, latin5, 920, ISO8859-9, ibm920, ISO_8859-9:1989, iso8859_9
JIS_X0201: JIS_X0201, X0201, JIS0201, csHalfWidthKatakana
JIS_X0212-1990: jis_x0212-1990, iso-ir-159, x0212, JIS0212, csISO159JISX02121990
KOI8-R: koi8, koi8_r, cskoi8r
Shift_JIS: shift-jis, shift_jis, x-sjis, ms_kanji, csShiftJIS, sjis
TIS-620: tis620.2533, tis620
US-ASCII: ISO646-US, IBM367, ASCII, cp367, default, ascii7, ANSI_X3.4-1986, iso-ir-6, us, 646, iso_646.irv:1983, csASCII, ANSI_X3.4-1968, ISO_646.irv:1991
UTF-16: utf16, UTF_16
UTF-16BE: X-UTF-16BE, UnicodeBigUnmarked, UTF_16BE, ISO-10646-UCS-2
UTF-16LE: UnicodeLittleUnmarked, X-UTF-16LE, UTF_16LE
UTF-8: UTF8, unicode-1-1-utf-8
windows-1250: cp1250, cp5346
windows-1251: ansi-1251, cp1251, cp5347
windows-1252: cp1252, cp5348
windows-1253: cp1253, cp5349
windows-1254: cp5350, cp1254
windows-1255: cp1255
windows-1256: cp1256
windows-1257: cp1257, cp5353
windows-1258: cp1258
windows-31j: csWindows31J, windows-932, MS932
x-Big5-Solaris: Big5_Solaris
x-euc-jp-linux: euc_jp_linux, euc-jp-linux
x-EUC-TW: cns11643, euc_tw, EUC-TW, euctw
x-eucJP-Open: EUC_JP_Solaris, eucJP-open
x-IBM1006: cp1006, ibm1006, 1006, ibm-1006
x-IBM1025: ibm1025, 1025, cp1025, ibm-1025
x-IBM1046: ibm1046, 1046, cp1046, ibm-1046
x-IBM1097: ibm1097, 1097, cp1097, ibm-1097
x-IBM1098: cp1098, ibm-1098, ibm1098, 1098
x-IBM1112: cp1112, 1112, ibm1112, ibm-1112
x-IBM1122: ibm-1122, 1122, cp1122, ibm1122
x-IBM1123: cp1123, ibm1123, ibm-1123, 1123
x-IBM1124: cp1124, ibm1124, ibm-1124, 1124
x-IBM1381: 1381, cp1381, ibm1381, ibm-1381
x-IBM1383: ibm1383, ibm-1383, cp1383, 1383
x-IBM33722: ibm-33722, cp33722, ibm-33722_vascii_vpua, ibm-5050, ibm33722, 33722
x-IBM737: ibm-737, ibm737, cp737, 737
x-IBM856: ibm-856, 856, ibm856, cp856
x-IBM874: cp874, ibm874, ibm-874, 874
x-IBM875: ibm875, ibm-875, 875, cp875
x-IBM921: 921, cp921, ibm921, ibm-921
x-IBM922: cp922, ibm922, ibm-922, 922
x-IBM930: cp930, 930, ibm930, ibm-930
x-IBM933: ibm933, cp933, 933, ibm-933
x-IBM935: 935, cp935, ibm935, ibm-935
x-IBM937: cp937, ibm-937, ibm937, 937
x-IBM939: ibm-939, ibm939, cp939, 939
x-IBM942: cp942, ibm942, ibm-942, 942
x-IBM942C: ibm942C, cp942C, ibm-942C, 942C
x-IBM943: ibm943, ibm-943, cp943, 943
x-IBM943C: ibm-943C, ibm943C, 943C, cp943C
x-IBM948: 948, ibm-948, cp948, ibm948
x-IBM949: ibm-949, cp949, 949, ibm949
x-IBM949C: cp949C, 949C, ibm949C, ibm-949C
x-IBM950: 950, cp950, ibm-950, ibm950
x-IBM964: 964, cp964, ibm-964, ibm964
x-IBM970: ibm970, 970, cp970, ibm-eucKR, ibm-970
x-ISCII91: iscii, ST_SEV_358-88, iso-ir-153, csISO153GOST1976874, ISCII91
x-ISO-2022-CN-CNS: ISO2022CN_CNS, ISO-2022-CN-CNS
x-ISO-2022-CN-GB: ISO-2022-CN-GB, ISO2022CN_GB
x-iso-8859-11: iso-8859-11, iso8859_11
x-JIS0208: JIS0208, csISO87JISX0208, x0208, JIS_C6226-1983, JIS_X0208-1983, iso-ir-87
x-JISAutoDetect: JISAutoDetect
x-Johab: johab, ms1361, ksc5601-1992, ksc5601_1992
x-MacArabic: MacArabic
x-MacCentralEurope: MacCentralEurope
x-MacCroatian: MacCroatian
x-MacCyrillic: MacCyrillic
x-MacDingbat: MacDingbat
x-MacGreek: MacGreek
x-MacHebrew: MacHebrew
x-MacIceland: MacIceland
x-MacRoman: MacRoman
x-MacRomania: MacRomania
x-MacSymbol: MacSymbol
x-MacThai: MacThai
x-MacTurkish: MacTurkish
x-MacUkraine: MacUkraine
x-MS950-HKSCS: MS950_HKSCS
x-mswin-936: ms936, ms_936
x-PCK: pck
x-windows-874: windows-874, ms874, ms-874
x-windows-949: windows949, ms_949, ms949
x-windows-950: windows-950, ms950

Get the default charset

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
/*
 *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 *  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 *  distributed with this work for additional information
 *  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
 *  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
 *  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 *  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *  
 *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *  
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
 *  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
 *  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
 *  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
 *  specific language governing permissions and limitations
 *  under the License. 
 *  
 */
/**
 * Various string manipulation methods that are more efficient then chaining
 * string operations: all is done in the same buffer without creating a bunch of
 * string objects.
 * 
 * @author 
 */
public class Main {
  /**
   * Get the default charset
   * 
   * @return The default charset
   */
  public static final String getDefaultCharsetName() throws Exception {
    String defaultCharset;
    try {
      // Try with jdk 1.5 method, if we are using a 1.5 jdk :)
      Method method = Charset.class.getMethod("defaultCharset", new Class[0]);
      defaultCharset = ((Charset) method.invoke(null, new Object[0])).name();
    } catch (NoSuchMethodException nsme) {
      defaultCharset = new OutputStreamWriter(new ByteArrayOutputStream()).getEncoding();
    } catch (InvocationTargetException ite) {
      defaultCharset = new OutputStreamWriter(new ByteArrayOutputStream()).getEncoding();
    } catch (IllegalAccessException iea) {
      defaultCharset = new OutputStreamWriter(new ByteArrayOutputStream()).getEncoding();
    } catch (RuntimeException e) {
      // fall back to old method
      defaultCharset = new OutputStreamWriter(new ByteArrayOutputStream()).getEncoding();
    }
    return defaultCharset;
  }
}

read byte data into a byte buffer and convert byte data into character data

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.CharBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetDecoder;
public class BufferConverter {
  public static void main(String[] arguments) {
    try {
      String data = "friends.dat";
      FileInputStream inData = new FileInputStream(data);
      FileChannel inChannel = inData.getChannel();
      long inSize = inChannel.size();
      ByteBuffer source = ByteBuffer.allocate((int) inSize);
      inChannel.read(source, 0);
      source.position(0);
      for (int i = 0; source.remaining() > 0; i++)
        System.out.print(source.get() + " ");
      source.position(0);
      Charset ascii = Charset.forName("US-ASCII");
      CharsetDecoder toAscii = ascii.newDecoder();
      CharBuffer destination = toAscii.decode(source);
      destination.position(0);
      System.out.println("\n\nNew character data:");
      for (int i = 0; destination.remaining() > 0; i++)
        System.out.print(destination.get());
    } catch (Exception ioe) {
      System.out.println(ioe.getMessage());
    }
  }
}