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Subject: Re: java.net.URLEncoder.encode + UTF-8 (rant)
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 20:05:59 +0100
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On 2016-10-17 14:38, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> <rant target="java.net.URLEncoder.encode(String s, String enc)">
> 
> This method should (according to the w3c) only be used with UTF-8
> and UTF-8 is always supposed to be supported by Java.
> 
> Why is there no java.net.URLEncoder.encodeUTF8(String s) that
> would free me from that boring
>   try {...} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ign) {...}
> boilerplate?  (What code do good(tm) Java programmers even put
> into this catch clause, that is expected to never run, anyway?)

throw new AssertionError( ing.toString() );

But yeah, it's annoying.

df.