Converting Between Strings (Unicode) and Other Character Set Encodings

Many network protocols and files store their characters with a byte-oriented character set such as ISO-8859-1 (ISO-Latin-1). However, Java's native character encoding is Unicode. This example demonstrates how to convert ISO-8859-1 encoded bytes in a ByteBuffer to a string in a CharBuffer and visa versa.

// Create the encoder and decoder for ISO-8859-1  
Charset charset = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");
CharsetDecoder decoder = charset.newDecoder();
CharsetEncoder encoder = charset.newEncoder();
try {  
    // Convert a string to ISO-LATIN-1 bytes in a ByteBuffer  
    // The new ByteBuffer is ready to be read.  
    ByteBuffer bbuf = encoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap("a string"));  
    // Convert ISO-LATIN-1 bytes in a ByteBuffer to a character ByteBuffer and then to a string.  
    // The new ByteBuffer is ready to be read.  
    CharBuffer cbuf = decoder.decode(bbuf);  
    String s = cbuf.toString();  
} catch (CharacterCodingException e) {  
}

In the example above, the encoding and decoding methods created new ByteBuffers into which to encode or decoding the data. Moreover, the newly allocated ByteBuffers are non-direct. The encoder and decoder provide methods that use a supplied ByteBuffer rather than create one. Here's an example that uses these methods:

// Create a direct ByteBuffer.    
// This buffer will be used to send and recieve data from channels.  
ByteBuffer bbuf = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(1024);  
// Create a non-direct character ByteBuffer  
CharBuffer cbuf = CharBuffer.allocate(1024);  
// Convert characters in cbuf to bbuf  
encoder.encode(cbuf, bbuf, false);  
// flip bbuf before reading from it  
bbuf.flip();  
// Convert bytes in bbuf to cbuf  
decoder.decode(bbuf, cbuf, false);  
// flip cbuf before reading from it  
cbuf.flip();

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