Here you can find the source of toChars(byte[] bytes)
public static char[] toChars(byte[] bytes)
//package com.java2s; /** I re-ported the (slightly modified) HBase's Bytes code here * to avoid dependencies on HBase in the common package of DML. * The copyright is included./*ww w .ja v a 2 s. c o m*/ * * * Copyright 2010 The Apache Software Foundation * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you 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. */ import java.nio.ByteBuffer; import java.nio.CharBuffer; import java.nio.charset.Charset; public class Main { /*************************************************************************** * Primitive arrays conversion utilities. **************************************************************************/ /* assuming the characters are encoded in UTF-8 */ private static final Charset CHARSET = Charset.forName("UTF-8"); public static char[] toChars(byte[] bytes) { ByteBuffer bf = ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes); CharBuffer cf = CHARSET.decode(bf); return cf.array(); } }