Java Utililty Methods UTF8 Encode

String encodeSignatureUtf8(byte[] sig)
Encodes the signature using charset UTF-8.

return new String(sig, SIGNATURE_CHARSET);

String encodeStringUtf8(String text)
encode String Utf

return new String(Charset.forName("UTF-8").encode(text).array());

String encodeToUTF8(String str)
encode To UTF

return encode(str, StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());

String encodeUtf8(byte[] bytes)
encode Utf

try {
 return bytes == null ? null : new String(bytes, UTF8);
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
 throw new RuntimeException("Could not convert bytes to UTF-8 string", e);

String encodeUTF8(byte[] bytes)
encode UTF

return new String(bytes, CHARSET_UTF8);

byte[] encodeUTF8(String str)
Encode a string as UTF-8.

return str.getBytes(utf8Charset);

byte[] encodeUTF8(String str)
Convenience method for encoding a UTF-8 byte string from a Java String .

try {
 return str.getBytes("UTF-8");
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
 throw new RuntimeException("UTF-8 charset not found! This should not happen...", e);

byte[] encodeUtf8(String string)
encode Utf

if (string == null)
 return null;
return string.getBytes(CharsetUTF8);

String encodeUtf8(String target)
encode Utf

String result = null;
try {
 result = new String(target.getBytes(), "UTF-8");
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
 System.err.println("ERROR! encode utf8 failed - " + e);
return result;

byte[] encodeUTF8(String text)
encode UTF

try {
 return text.getBytes(UTF_8.name());
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
 throw new AssertionError(e);