Return UTF-8 encoded byte[] representation of a String in Java

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import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.Arrays;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] argv) {
    System.out.println(Arrays.toString(getBytesUtf8("java2s.com")));
  }

  public static final byte[] getBytesUtf8(String string) {
    if (string == null) {
      return new byte[0];
    }

    try {
      return string.getBytes("UTF-8");
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
      return new byte[] {};
    }
  }
}