Charsets for hex/base64 (original) (raw)

Jonas Konrad me at yawk.at
Thu May 3 09:07:51 UTC 2018

Well technically there is some sort of precedent to this, since CharsetEncoder/Decoder operate on CharBuffers which are just utf-16 encoded strings. So charsets already may produce a single output code unit for multiple input code units (UTF-32, which may output 1 code unit for 2 UTF-16 input code units / chars). Of course, consuming multiple code points would be new but code points aren't really part of the CharBuffer api.

On 05/02/2018 05:29 PM, Weijun Wang wrote:

On May 2, 2018, at 4:35 PM, Jonas Konrad <me at yawk.at> wrote: "0a0b0c".getBytes(HexCharset.getInstance()) = new byte[] { 0x0a, 0x0b, 0x0c } new String(new byte[] { 0x0a, 0x0b, 0x0c }, HexCharset.getInstance()) = "0a0b0c" Normally a charset is to encode a string to byte[], but here you can actually decoding a string to byte[]. This would lead to quite some concept differences. For example, we can say if a char is encodable for a charset, but for the HEX "charset", you will have to say what combination of chars is "encodable". --Max

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