Question

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
    <note>
        <from>Jani</from>
        <to>ALOK</to>
        <message>AshuTosh</message>
    </note>

I have the XML parser which supports UTF-8 encoding only else it gives SAX parser exception. How can i convert the UTF-16 to UTF-8?

Answer 1

In that case its not a XML parser that your are using, see section 2.2 of the xml specification:

All XML processors MUST accept the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings of Unicode

Java xml parsers usually receive their input wrapped in an InputSource object. This can be constructed with a Reader parameter that does the character decoding for the given charset.

InputStream in = ...
InputSource is = new InputSource(new InputStreamReader(in, "utf-16"));

For the “utf-16” charset the stream should start with a byte order mark, if that is not the case use either “utf-16le” or “utf-16be”.