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

This solved my problem

    String inputText = "some text with escaped chars"
    InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(inputText.getBytes("UTF-8"));