code: public static void setCharsetEncoding(String charset) {
  		try {
  
  			String test = "123456890";
  			test.getBytes(charset);
  			CHARSET_ENCODING = charset;
  			encode = true;
  		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
  			// Reset the encoding to default
  			CHARSET_ENCODING = "";
  			encode = false;
  		}
  	}
docs: Allows the default encoding to be overriden for String variables
  processed by the class. This currently defaults to UTF-8.
  
  @param charset
  @throws UnsupportedEncodingException