String encoding - Shift_JIS / UTF-8

Question

I get a string from a 3rd party library, which is not well encoded. Unfortunately I\'m not allowed to change the library or use another one...

So the actual problem

Answer 1

Well, very strange:

As

byte[] b = resultString.getBytes("Shift_JIS");
String value = new String(b, "UTF-8");

didn't work for me I tried the following:

String value = new String(resultString.getBytes("SHIFT-JIS"), "UTF-8")

Works like a charm. Maybe it was because of the underscore and lower case character in "Shift_JIS".