How to convert Strings to and from UTF8 byte arrays in Java

Question

In Java, I have a String and I want to encode it as a byte array (in UTF8, or some other encoding). Alternately, I have a byte array (in some known encoding) and I want to c

Answer 1

My tomcat7 implementation is accepting strings as ISO-8859-1; despite the content-type of the HTTP request. The following solution worked for me when trying to correctly interpret characters like 'é' .

byte[] b1 = szP1.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
System.out.println(b1.toString());

String szUT8 = new String(b1, "UTF-8");
System.out.println(szUT8);

When trying to interpret the string as US-ASCII, the byte info wasn't correctly interpreted.

b1 = szP1.getBytes("US-ASCII");
System.out.println(b1.toString());