UTF-8 encoding

Is there an existing class or method that converts strings to their UTF-8 equivalents?
[93 byte] By [rfca] at [2007-11-27 9:11:11]
# 1
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/String.html#getBytes(java.lang.String)byte[] utf8Bytes = str.getBytes("UTF-8");
jverda at 2007-7-12 21:56:32 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,New To Java...
# 2
Thank you.
rfca at 2007-7-12 21:56:32 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,New To Java...