Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Copyright 2009 Welocalize, Inc. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * * You may obtain a copy of the License at * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * */ public class Main { /** * Should always be able convert to/from UTF-8, so encoding exceptions are converted to an Error to avoid adding * throws declarations in lots of methods. * @param str String * @return utf8 bytes * @see String#getBytes() */ public static byte[] getBytes(String str) { try { return str.getBytes("UTF8"); } catch (java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException e) { throw new Error("String to UTF-8 conversion failed: " + e.getMessage()); } } }