Conversion from char to byte

Question

can anybody to convert char which is unicode in java as one byte. i want to print that byte as ascii.
i tried below method.
char temp='s';
ByteBuffer buff= ByteBuffer.wrap(some byte array of some size);
buff.putChar(temp);
out.writeByte(buff.getChar()); // out is my dataoutput stream which
// stores in some file by using
// fileoutputstream.
in some case i got right output like: s
but in some case i got: sX where X=white space.
so it's still writing as unicode eventhough i called writeByte.
i want to change my program little bit by putting char as byte and not as char in bytebuffer and i want to do something like this after i store my chars as byte
out.writeByte(buff.getByte());
do you have any method to convert char to byte and store it in buff?
thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Try the toBytes() method of the String class.