Java convert ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

Question

I have a properties file with Asian translations in it, which I believe is saved as ISO-8859-1. I'm trying to convert them to UTF-8. So è­¦å: would equal 警告:

I've tried several methods listed on this site as well as some other sites but have had no luck.

byte[] isoBytes = line.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
byte[] utf8 = new String(isoBytes, "ISO-8859-1").getBytes("UTF-8");

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CharBuffer charBuf = null;
Charset isocharset = Charset.forName("iso-8859-1");
CharsetDecoder isoDecoder = Charset.forName("iso-8859-1").newDecoder();
CharsetDecoder utf8Decoder = Charset.forName("UTF-8").newDecoder();
byte sByte[] = line.getBytes("iso-8859-1");
charBuf = utf8Decoder.decode(isoBuf);

What is the easiest way to convert è­¦å: to 警告:?

Thank You Rich

@Pshemo had the answer I was looking for

byte[] isoBytes = line.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
System.out.println(new String(isoBytes, "UTF-8"));

Thank you all for your help

Solution

This worked for me:

@Pshemo had the answer I was looking for

byte[] isoBytes = line.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
System.out.println(new String(isoBytes, "UTF-8"));

Comments

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Unfortunately, this is a large project and I don't have the ability to do that. I just need the quick and dirty Java code.