How to know if string is UTF-8 encoded?

[Shah Jenish]

Hello All,

I have an instance in my application. Where I need to get one parameter from URL. There is possibility that whatever I get as string can be encoded or can be not encoded.

And if its encoded I have to decode it before using.

Can anybody please suggest me the way by which we can identify if particular string is already UTF-8 encoded or not?

Thanks,
Jenish

[James Sabre]

See the answer to your cross post - http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2159556&tstart=0 .

[Rob Spoor]

Shah, please BeForthrightWhenCrossPostingToOtherSites.