Recommended method for handling UnsupportedEncodingException from String.getBytes(“UTF-8”)

Question

What is the recommended way to handle an UnsupportedEncodingException when calling String.getBytes(\"UTF-8\") inside a library method?

If I\'m reading http://docs.orac

Answer 1

You know what I do?

return "blah".getBytes( Charset.forName( "UTF-8" ) );

This one doesn't throw a checked exception.

Update: Since Java 1.7, we have StandardCharsets.

return "blah".getBytes( StandardCharsets.UTF_8 );