Java UTF from toUtfBytes(final String s)

Description

Converts the supplied string into its UTF-8 representation.

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
s	The string to convert.

Exception

Parameter	Description
RuntimeException	in the rare event that the JVM does not support UTF-8. It should always support it, so this functionwraps away the exception

Return

The UTF-8 representation of s

Declaration

public static byte[] toUtfBytes(final String s) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Converts the supplied string into its UTF-8 representation.
     * 
     * @param s
     *            The string to convert.
     * @return The UTF-8 representation of <i>s</i>
     * @throws RuntimeException
     *             in the rare event that the JVM does not support UTF-8. It should always support it, so this function
     *             wraps away the exception
     */
    public static byte[] toUtfBytes(final String s) {
        try {
            byte[] b = s.getBytes("UTF-8");
            return (b);
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("This java machine is stupid. The code will die. Cake.");
        }
    }
}

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1. toUTF8String(byte[] b, int offset, int length)
2. toUtf8String(String source)
3. toUTF8String(String str)
4. toUTF_8(String s)
5. toUTFBody(String str)
6. toUtfString(char[] encoded)