Weird String.getByte(Encoding) problem

Question

Hello,

I am trying this:

byte[] b = String.getByte("ASCII") and get an UnsupportedEncodingException Exception

String fName = new String(b,"ASCII");

- got the same when used

byte[] b = String.getByte("ISO8859_1");
String fName = new String(b,"ISO8859_1");

Appreciate any help.

Answer 1

That code won't compile - it's String.getBytes() not String.getByte(), and it's an instance method not a static method. It's always worth cutting and pasting a real example which you've got working (even if it's just a dummy app).

However, assuming you've got similar code which is compiling, you should be using "US-ASCII" and "ISO-8859-1" as the names, as documented in the Charset JavaDoc.

Answer 2

according to javadoc you must use: "US-ASCII"

Answer 3

I think you want something more like this:

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;


public class Encoding
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws UnsupportedEncodingException
    {
     String s = "Hello world";
     byte[] b = s.getBytes("US-ASCII");
    }
}