import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets class UTF8EncodeDecode { static byte[] utf8encode(int codePoint) { char[] characters = [codePoint] new String(characters, 0, 1).getBytes StandardCharsets.UTF_8 } static int utf8decode(byte[] bytes) { new String(bytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8).codePointAt(0) } static void main(String[] args) { printf "%-7s %-43s %7s\t%s\t%7s%n", "Char", "Name", "Unicode", "UTF-8 encoded", "Decoded" ([0x0041, 0x00F6, 0x0416, 0x20AC, 0x1D11E]).each { int codePoint -> byte[] encoded = utf8encode codePoint Formatter formatter = new Formatter() encoded.each { byte b -> formatter.format "%02X ", b } String encodedHex = formatter.toString() int decoded = utf8decode encoded printf "%-7c %-43s U+%04X\t%-12s\tU+%04X%n", codePoint, Character.getName(codePoint), codePoint, encodedHex, decoded } } }