title: Is the MacRoman encoding guaranteed to be supported on all Java SE 1.5+ VMs?
body: <p>Thanks to people who answered, I could realize I was indeed dealing with files encoded in "MacRoman":</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4844180/in-which-encoding-is-0xdb-a-currency-symbol">In which encoding is 0xDB a currency symbol?</a></p>
  
  <p>So I'm wondering: are charsets contained in <em>lib/charsets.jar</em> guaranteed to exist in all the 1.5 JVMs?</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Unlike, say, UTF-8, x-MacRoman is not present in <em>rt.jar</em> but in <em>lib/charsets.jar</em>.  I don't understand the difference very well.</p>
  
  <p>Is MacRoman, just like UTF8, guaranteed to be present?</p>
  
  <p>P.S: would be great is someone could create the MacRoman tag.</p>