UTF8 encoding issue in scala

Question

I need help with the encoding to UTF-8. I am trying to populate few data in db using scala. I used the following code to convert the field to UTF-8.

def formatElement(value : String) : String = {
        var strValue = new String(java.util.Arrays.copyOfRange(value.getBytes("UTF-8"), 0, value.getBytes("UTF-8").length), "UTF-8");
        strValue;
    }

But the problem is the encoding done properly. For example:

Fülöpszállás getting saved as Fülöpszállás
Zablaće getting saved as ZablaÄe

I am using maven to compile and in pom.xml I have added

    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

under "property" node

Answer 1

On analyzing the issue I have found out the reason. I have different file.encoding set in my websphere server. So the code is not required as the encoding is handled by the server itself. No matter in which format I encode my string it will get encoded to the format which is mentioned in the server. Thanks for your effort.