Converting from Windows 1252 to UTF8 in Java: null characters with CharsetDecoder/Encoder

Question

I know it\'s a very general question but I\'m becoming mad.

I used this code:

String ucs2Content = new String(bufferToConvert, inputEncoding);        
          


        

Answer 1

I am not sure how you get a sequence of null characters. Try this

String outputEncoding = "UTF-8";
Charset charsetOutput = Charset.forName(outputEncoding);
CharsetEncoder encoder = charsetOutput.newEncoder();

// Convert the byte array from starting inputEncoding into UCS2
byte[] bufferToConvert = "Hello World! £€".getBytes();
CharBuffer cbuf = decoder.decode(ByteBuffer.wrap(bufferToConvert));

// Convert the internal UCS2 representation into outputEncoding
ByteBuffer bbuf = encoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap(cbuf));
System.out.println(new String(bbuf.array(), 0, bbuf.limit(), charsetOutput));

prints

Hello World! £€