title: What if my JRE doesn't support a character encoding?
body: <p>What if a file is generated using an encoding that my JRE doesn't support? Is there anyway to extend/customize what my JRE can handle?</p>
  
  <p>This might be a terrible/irrelevant example (I'm just brushing up on character sets/encodings for the first time), but I <em>believe</em> the Linux JRE does not handle CP-1252 (a Windows encoding). If that's the case, then how can I get a Java app running on a Linux machine to read a CP-1252-encoded file?</p>
  
  <p>Even if the Linux JRE distro <em>does</em> support CP-1252 (making that a horrible example), I know for a fact that there are encodings that it doesn't support. Whatever those encodings are, is there any way to extend its standard <code>Charactset</code>, and if so, how?</p>