Encode String to UTF-8

Question

I have a String with a \"ñ\" character and I have some problems with it. I need to encode this String to UTF-8 encoding. I have tried it by this way, but it doesn\'t work:

Answer 1

Use byte[] ptext = String.getBytes("UTF-8"); instead of getBytes(). getBytes() uses so-called "default encoding", which may not be UTF-8.