http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.nio.charset/ConvertChar.html

Amit Jain

Not really.  You've got a String that consists of Unicode characters.
(UTF-16 characters, to be very precise.)   All strings in Java are Unicode.
What you probalby mean is that you have a String that was initially created
from bytes that were encoded in ISO 8859-1.

   byte[] iso88592Bytes = myString.getBytes("ISO-8859-2");

assuming that your JRE supports 8859-2   If not, this will throw an
UnsupportedEncodingException.  Here's a handy program to list all of the
encodings Java supports:

import java.util.*;
import java.nio.charset.*;

class Charsets
{
   public static void main(String[] args)
   {
       List names = new ArrayList();
       Iterator cs = Charset.availableCharsets().values().iterator() ;
       while (cs.hasNext())
       {
           names.add(((Charset)cs.next()).name());
       }
       Collections.sort(names);
       Iterator nameIter = names.iterator() ;
       while (nameIter.hasNext())
       {
           System.out.println(nameIter.next());
       }
   }
}

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/native2ascii.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/conversion.html