Added a method to give you the default characte...

Added a method to give you the default character set encoding as a
String.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/library/scala/compat/Platform.scala b/src/library/scala/compat/Platform.scala
index 1fd2962add..a0a3fe07ab 100644
--- a/src/library/scala/compat/Platform.scala
+++ b/src/library/scala/compat/Platform.scala
@@ -50,5 +50,12 @@ object Platform {
 
   def collectGarbage: Unit = System.gc()
 
+  /** The name of the default character set encoding as a string */
+  def defaultCharsetName: String = {
+    import java.io._
+    new OutputStreamWriter(new ByteArrayOutputStream).getEncoding()
+  }
+
+
 }