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| Chapter 24 The java.io Package |

## 24.66 java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException (JDK 1.1)

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This exception signals that a requested character encoding is not supported by the current Java Virtual Machine.

    public class UnsupportedEncodingException extends IOException {
        // Public Constructors
                public UnsupportedEncodingException();
                public UnsupportedEncodingException(String s);
    }

### Hierarchy:

Object->Throwable(Serializable)->Exception->IOException->UnsupportedEncodingException

### Thrown By:

ByteArrayOutputStream.toString(), InputStreamReader(), OutputStreamWriter(), String(), String.getBytes()

java.io.SyncFailedException (JDK 1.1) |  | java.io.UTFDataFormatException (JDK 1.0)