Will String.getBytes(“UTF-16”) return the same result on all platforms?

Question

I need to create a hash from a String containing users password. To create the hash, I use a byte array which I get by calling String.getBytes(). But when I cal

Answer 1

I just found this:

https://github.com/facebook/conceal/issues/138

which seems to answer negatively your question.

As per Jon Skeet's answer: the specification is clear. But I guess Android/Mac implementations of Dalvik/JVM don't agree.