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1   /* $Id: UTF8Bytes.java 4388 2006-07-28 05:02:57Z stack-sf $
2    *
3    * Created Jul 27, 2006
4    *
5    * Copyright (C) 2006 Internet Archive.
6    *
7    * This file is part of the Heritrix web crawler (crawler.archive.org).
8    *
9    * Heritrix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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22   */
23  package org.archive.io;
24  
25  import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
26  
27  /***
28   * Marker Interface for instances that can be serialized as UTF8 bytes.
29   * TODO: Do we need a UTF8Stream Marker Interface?
30   * @author stack
31   * @version $Date: 2006-07-28 05:02:57 +0000 (Fri, 28 Jul 2006) $ $Version$
32   */
33  public interface UTF8Bytes {
34      public static final String UTF8 = "UTF-8";
35      
36      /***
37       * @return Instance as UTF-8 bytes.
38       * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException 
39       */
40      public byte [] getUTF8Bytes() throws UnsupportedEncodingException;
41  }