Where to get "UTF-8" string literal in Java?

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I'm trying to use a constant instead of a string literal in this piece of code:

new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file), "UTF-8")

"UTF-8" appears in the code rather often, and would be much better to refer to some static final variable instead. Do you know where I can find such a variable in JDK?

BTW, on a second thought, such constants are bad design: Public Static Literals ... Are Not a Solution for Data Duplication

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In Java 1.7+

Do not use "UTF-8" string, instead use Charset type parameter:

import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets

...

new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(file), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
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Class org.apache.commons.lang3.CharEncoding.UTF_8 is deprecated after Java 7 introduced java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets

  • @see JRE character encoding names
  • @since 2.1
  • @deprecated Java 7 introduced {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets}, which defines these constants as
  • {@link Charset} objects. Use {@link Charset#name()} to get the string values provided in this class.
  • This class will be removed in a future release.
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