Here you can find the source of getUtf8BytesFromFile(String fileName)
public static byte[] getUtf8BytesFromFile(String fileName) throws IOException
//package com.java2s; /**/*w w w . j a v a 2s.c o m*/ * Copyright 2008 - 2009 Pro-Netics S.P.A. * * 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. */ import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.Reader; public class Main { public static byte[] getUtf8BytesFromFile(String fileName) throws IOException { InputStream inputStream = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(fileName); Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream); StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer(); char[] buffer = new char[4096]; int len; while ((len = reader.read(buffer)) > 0) { stringBuffer.append(buffer, 0, len); } return stringBuffer.toString().getBytes("UTF-8"); } }