Java Charset problem on linux

Question

problem: I have a string containing special characters which i convert to bytes and vice versa..the conversion works properly on windows but on linux the special character is no

Answer 1

You should make the conversion explicitly:

byte[] byteArray = "abcd".getBytes( "ISO-8859-1" );
new String( byteArray, "ISO-8859-1" );

EDIT:

It seems that the problem is the encoding of your java file. If it works on windows, try compiling the source files on linux with javac -encondig ISO-8859-1. This should solve your problem.