are these two equivalent? How do I convert a byte[] to char[] in java? Or better put use a char[] in place of a byte[]. I am using String.toBytes("UTF-8") to convert a string to byte array.

The following code shows all of the non-shortest-2-bytes-form for these ASCII characters, if you run code against the “old” version of the JDK and JRE (Java Runtime Environment). The Unicode ...