Obtaining the default charset (aka platform encoding) in JAVA
… is really simple since JDK 1.5:
java.nio.charset.Charset.defaultCharset()
So please don’t use messy, old workarounds such as this:
byte [] byteArray = {'a'};
InputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray);
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);
String defaultEncoding = reader.getEncoding();
Which, unfortunately, is one of the first things you stumble upon when searching for this topic.
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