"timfox" wrote : "trustin" wrote : I'd prefer David's suggestion to use UTF-16 although it's not so efficient for ASCII strings. | | I'm not really sure I understand why UTF-16 is going to be more performant than UTF-8. It's because it's as simple as writing a series of short integers? It should look like this for example: for (int i = 0; i < str.length(); i ++) { buf.putChar(str.charAt(i)); } View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4150810#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...