package demo; import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; import java.nio.ByteBuffer; import java.nio.CharBuffer; import java.nio.charset.Charset; /** * @author oliver * @since 18.11.2005 */ public class Converter { /** * You may get problems using String.getBytes("UTF-8") on a non UTF-8 * environment. Here is an alternative for it from * https://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html. * * @param text * @return * @throws UnsupportedEncodingException */ public static byte[] utf8encode(String text) throws UnsupportedEncodingException { //return text.getBytes("UTF-8"); Charset cs = Charset.forName("UTF8"); CharBuffer ss = CharBuffer.wrap(text); ByteBuffer bb = cs.encode(ss); int limit = bb.limit(); // how many chars in buffer byte[] b = new byte[ limit ]; bb.get( b, 0 /* offset */, limit ); return b; } }