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

Accepted Answer

In Java 1.7+, java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets defines constants for `Charset` including `UTF_8`.

```
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

...

StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name();
```

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

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