This method converts a UTF8-encoded string to ISO-8859-1 - Java java.lang

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This method converts a UTF8-encoded string to ISO-8859-1

Demo Code

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

public class Main {
    /**
     * This method converts a UTF8-encoded string to ISO-8859-1
     * 
     * @param utf8String
     * @return Re-encoded string
     */
    public static String utf8ToIso(String utf8String) {
        return convertStringEncoding(utf8String, "UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1"); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
    }

    /**
     * This method converts strings between various encodings.
     * 
     * @param sourceString
     * @param sourceEncoding
     * @param targetEncoding
     * @return Re-encoded string.
     */
    public static String convertStringEncoding(String sourceString,
            String sourceEncoding, String targetEncoding) {
        String targetString = null;
        if (null != sourceString && !sourceString.equals("")) { //$NON-NLS-1$
            try {
                byte[] stringBytesSource = sourceString
                        .getBytes(sourceEncoding);
                targetString = new String(stringBytesSource, targetEncoding);
            } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
        } else {
            targetString = sourceString;
        }
        return targetString;
    }
}

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