Use the class URLEncoder:
URLEncoder.encode(String s, String enc)
Where :
s - String to be translated.
enc - The name of a supported character encoding.
Standard charsets:
US-ASCII Seven-bit ASCII, a.k.a. ISO646-US, a.k.a. the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set ISO-8859-1 ISO Latin Alphabet No. 1, a.k.a. ISO-LATIN-1
UTF-8 Eight-bit UCS Transformation Format
UTF-16BE Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, big-endian byte order
UTF-16LE Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, little-endian byte order
UTF-16 Sixteen-bit UCS Transformation Format, byte order identified by an optional byte-order mark
Example:
import java.net.URLEncoder;
String stringEncoded = URLEncoder.encode(
"This text must be encoded! aeiou áéíóú ñ, peace!", "UTF-8");