Convert UTF-16 unicode characters to UTF-8 in java
try { // Convert from Unicode to UTF-8 String string = "\u003c"; byte[] utf8 = string.getBytes("UTF-8"); // Convert from UTF-8 to Unicode string = new String(utf8, "UTF-8");} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {}
refer http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.lang/unicodetoutf8.html