Converting A String To Hexadecimal In Java

The numbers that you encode into hexadecimal must represent some encoding of the characters, such as UTF-8. So first convert the String to a byte[] representing the string in that encoding, then convert each byte to hexadecimal.

public static String hexadecimal(String input, String charsetName) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
    if (input == null) throw new NullPointerException();
    return asHex(input.getBytes(charsetName));
}

private static final char[] HEX_CHARS = "0123456789abcdef".toCharArray();

public static String asHex(byte[] buf)
{
    char[] chars = new char[2 * buf.length];
    for (int i = 0; i < buf.length; ++i)
    {
        chars[2 * i] = HEX_CHARS[(buf[i] & 0xF0) >>> 4];
        chars[2 * i + 1] = HEX_CHARS[buf[i] & 0x0F];
    }
    return new String(chars);
}