#if JAVA

return java.nio.charset.Charset.forName(name)

#elseif CLR

return System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(name)

#elseif ISLAND

switch name.uppercased() {

case "UTF8","UTF-8": return RemObjects.Elements.System.Encoding.UTF8

case "UTF16","UTF-16": return RemObjects.Elements.System.Encoding.UTF16

case "UTF32","UTF-32": return RemObjects.Elements.System.Encoding.UTF32

case "UTF16LE","UTF-16LE": return RemObjects.Elements.System.Encoding.UTF16LE

case "UTF16BE","UTF-16BE": return RemObjects.Elements.System.Encoding.UTF16BE

case "UTF32LE","UTF-32LE": return RemObjects.Elements.System.Encoding.UTF32LE

case "UTF32BE","UTF-32BE": return RemObjects.Elements.System.Encoding.UTF32BE

//case "US-ASCII", "ASCII","UTF-ASCII": return RemObjects.Elements.System.Encoding.ASCII

default: throw Exception("Invalid Encoding '\(name)'")

}

#elseif COCOA

switch name.uppercased() {

case "UTF8","UTF-8": return NSStringEncoding.UTF8StringEncoding

case "UTF16","UTF-16": return NSStringEncoding.UTF16StringEncoding

case "UTF32","UTF-32": return NSStringEncoding.UTF32StringEncoding

case "UTF16LE","UTF-16LE": return NSStringEncoding.UTF16LittleEndianStringEncoding

case "UTF16BE","UTF-16BE": return NSStringEncoding.UTF16BigEndianStringEncoding

case "UTF32LE","UTF-32LE": return NSStringEncoding.UTF32LittleEndianStringEncoding

case "UTF32BE","UTF-32BE": return NSStringEncoding.UTF32BigEndianStringEncoding

case "US-ASCII", "ASCII","UTF-ASCII": return NSStringEncoding.ASCIIStringEncoding

default:

let encoding = CFStringConvertIANACharSetNameToEncoding(bridge<CFStringRef>(name))

if encoding != kCFStringEncodingInvalidId {

return CFStringConvertEncodingToNSStringEncoding(encoding) as! NSStringEncoding

}

throw Exception("Invalid Encoding '\(name)'")

}

#endif