utf8 « byte « Java Data Type Q&A

1. What's a good heuristic to see if a set of bytes are encoded as UTF-8 in Java?    stackoverflow.com

I have a byte stream that may be UTF-8 data or it may be a binary image. I should be able to make an educated guess about which one it ...

2. Can I tell how many bytes were written via DataOutput.writeUTF?    stackoverflow.com

If I call writeUTF(String) on a DataOutput object, is there a way to tell how many bytes were actually written? E.g.:

public int write(DataOutput output) throws IOException {
   output.writeUTF(this.messageString);
  ...

3. "Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence"error    stackoverflow.com

Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence my error is the above line.am using am calling java method using Blaze DS.

4. [code]String str = "\u0A85\u0abf\u0ab5"; byte[] str1 = str.getBytes("UTF-8"); str = new String(str1)    coderanch.com

5. UTF-8 decoding byte[] into a String    forums.oracle.com