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I am writing an app in Java ME for old Symbian devices (and not only them). I have a problem. I am trying to draw emojis using png images. They are stored on some server in 2 folders. The first folder does not contain new emojis after year 2017 and I have to change my code. Old code to guess the filename:

Integer.toHexString((int) text.toCharArray()[ii-1]).toUpperCase()+Integer.toHexString((int) text.toCharArray()[ii]).toUpperCase()+".png"

This helps me to convert emoji with integer codes of 2 symbols 55356 57147 to D83CDF3B.png Now I need to get f09f8cbb.png from the same emoji. The website https://unicode-table.com/en/1F33B/ says that UTF-8 F0 9F 8C BB and UTF-16BE D8 3C DF 3B is the same. How can I convert from UTF16BE to UTF-8 ? All the code I had found on the net is in C or Javascript and does not suite to me. On StackOverflow, I also found this code

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) {
}

But it returns the same String as I give to it.

Computershik
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    "But it returns the same String as I give to it." Yes, because you're asking for the UTF-8 bytes, and then constructing a string from the UTF-8 bytes. – Andy Turner Sep 28 '21 at 09:24
  • @AndyTurner Nevertheless, this code is provided as an answer here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9075603/convert-utf-16-unicode-characters-to-utf-8-in-java – Computershik Sep 28 '21 at 14:24

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This helped me in Java ME, in compliance to Java 1.3.

static String bytesToHex(byte[] bytes) {
        final char[] HEX_ARRAY = "0123456789ABCDEF".toCharArray();
        char[] hexChars = new char[bytes.length * 2];
        for (int j = 0; j < bytes.length; j++) {
            int v = bytes[j] & 0xFF;
            hexChars[j * 2] = HEX_ARRAY[v >>> 4];
            hexChars[j * 2 + 1] = HEX_ARRAY[v & 0x0F];
        }
        return new String(hexChars);
    }
    

String HexOfString(String str) {
   byte[] utfString = str.getBytes("UTF-8");
   return bytesToHex(utfString);
}

From emoji I got "F09F8CBB"

Computershik
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