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+package com.baeldung.encodetoutf8;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+
+import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.StringUtils;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class StringEncodeUnitTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenGermanAsciiString_whenComparing_thenCompareNotEquals() {
+        String germanString = "Entwickeln Sie mit Vergnügen";
+        byte[] germanBytes = germanString.getBytes();
+
+        String asciiEncodedString = new String(germanBytes, StandardCharsets.US_ASCII);
+
+        assertNotEquals(germanString, asciiEncodedString);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenUsAsciiString_whenComparing_thenCompareNotEquals() {
+        String englishString = "Develop with pleasure";
+        byte[] englishBytes = englishString.getBytes();
+
+        String asciiEncondedEnglishString = new String(englishBytes, StandardCharsets.US_ASCII);
+
+        assertEquals(englishString, asciiEncondedEnglishString);
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * ApacheCommonsCodecEncode
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void givenSomeUnencodedString_whenApacheCommonsCodecEncode_thenCompareEquals() {
+        String rawString = "Entwickeln Sie mit Vergnügen";
+        byte[] bytes = StringUtils.getBytesUtf8(rawString);
+
+        String utf8EncodedString = StringUtils.newStringUtf8(bytes);
+
+        assertEquals(rawString, utf8EncodedString);
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * CoreJavaEncode
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void givenSomeUnencodedString_whenCoreJavaEncode_thenCompareEquals() {
+        String rawString = "Entwickeln Sie mit Vergnügen";
+        byte[] bytes = rawString.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+
+        String utf8EncodedString = new String(bytes, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+
+        assertEquals(rawString, utf8EncodedString);
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * Java7StandardCharsetsEncode
+     */
+    @Test
+    public void givenSomeUnencodedString_whenJava7StandardCharsetsEncode_thenCompareEquals() {
+        String rawString = "Entwickeln Sie mit Vergnügen";
+        ByteBuffer buffer = StandardCharsets.UTF_8.encode(rawString);
+
+        String utf8EncodedString = StandardCharsets.UTF_8.decode(buffer)
+            .toString();
+
+        assertEquals(rawString, utf8EncodedString);
+    }
+}