Guava contains the tiny, yet very useful class Charsets, which has constants for all the charsets that any JVM implementation must support: UTF-8 UTF-16 in big-endian and little-endian byte orders or with the BOM (byte order mark) ASCII ISO-8859-1, also known as Latin-1. These are available as constants such as Charsets.UTF_8. This can help you avoid having to write silly code such as: try { myString.getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-8")); } catch (UnsupportedCharsetException e) { // How can this...
