UTF-8 to Java

Question

Is there any way I can turn the UTF-8 language to Java? If so, how? If not, then is there any way I can read the UTF-8 encoding?

Answer 1

String objects in Java don't have an encoding (*).

The only thing that has an encoding is a byte. So if you need UTF-8 data, then you need a byte. If you have a String that contains unexpected data, then the problem is at some earlier place that incorrectly converted some binary data to a String (i.e. it was using the wrong encoding).

(*) that's not entirely accurate. Actually they have an encoding, but that's UTF-16 and can't be modified.