Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; public class Main { public static final String ENCODE_CHARSET = "UTF-8"; public static byte[] getBytes(String str) { if (str != null) { try { return str.getBytes(ENCODE_CHARSET); } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) { return str.getBytes(); } } else { return new byte[0]; } } }