Encode String to UTF-8

Question

I have a String with a \"ñ\" character and I have some problems with it. I need to encode this String to UTF-8 encoding. I have tried it by this way, but it doesn\'t work:

Answer 1

You can try this way.

byte ptext[] = myString.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"); 
String value = new String(ptext, "UTF-8");