Core Java

public static void main(String args[])
{
// 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();
System.out.println(s);
} catch (CharacterCodingException e) {
}
}