Triple byte unicode to utf-16

Question

I need to convert a triple byte unicode value (UTF-8) to UTF-16.
Does anyone have any code to do this. I have tried some code like:
String original = new String("\ue9a1b5");
byte[] utf8Bytes = original.getBytes("UTF8");
byte[] defaultBytes = original.getBytes();
but this does not seem to process the last byte (b5). Also, when I try to convert the hex values to utf-16, it is vastly off.
-Lou

Answer 1

Good question. Answer is, it does.
Oops, sorry, I think I left my brain in the kitchen :)
I was somehow thinking that "hmmm, e is not a hexadecimal digit so that must result in an error"... but of course it is...
Am I representing the triple byte unicode character
wrong? How do I get a 3 byte unicode character into
Java (for example, the utf-16 9875)?It's simply "\u9875".
If you have byte data in UTF-8 encoding, this is what you can do:try {
    byte[] utf8 = {(byte) 0xE9, (byte) 0xA1, (byte) 0xB5}
    String stringFromUTF8 = new String(utf8, "UTF-8");
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
    // UTF-8 is guaranteed to be supported everywhere
}