Is Java UTF-8 Charset exception possible? -

can java possibly throw unsupportedencodingexception when using "utf-8" encoding, or can safely suppress it's throwing?

as mcdowell noted in comment templatetypdef's answer: if use charset object when instantiate new string instead of passing name of charset, don't have deal unsupportedencodingexception or other checked exception:

byte[] bytes = ...;  // requires handle unsupportedencodingexception string s1 = new string(bytes, "utf-8");  // doesn't require handle checked exceptions string s2 = new string(bytes, charset.forname("utf-8")); 

it's inconsistency in java's standard library have live with...

note charset.forname(...) can throw exceptions (illegalcharsetnameexception, illegalargumentexception, unsupportedcharsetexception), these unchecked exceptions, don't have catch or re-throw them yourself.

edit - since java 7 there's class java.nio.charset.standardcharsets has constants used character encodings. example:

string s3 = new string(bytes, standardcharsets.utf_8);