UTF-8 encodes Java strings into properties

I have a single UTF - 8 encoded string, which is a series of key - value pairs that need to be loaded into the properties object I noticed that I was using the garbled code of my initial implementation. After a Google search, I found that this question indicates that my problem is - basically, the attribute of iso-8859-1 is used by default This implementation looks like

public Properties load(String propertiesString) {
        Properties properties = new Properties();
        try {
            properties.load(new ByteArrayInputStream(propertiesString.getBytes()));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            logger.error(ExceptionUtils.getFullStackTrace(e));
        }
        return properties;
    }

There is no specified code, so my problem For my question, I don't know how to link / create a reader / InputStream combination to pass to the user using the provided propertiesstring and specifying the encoded properties load(). I think this is mainly due to my inexperience in I / O flow and Java IO package looks like a huge IO utility library

Any suggestions are appreciated

Solution

Use reader when using strings Inputstreams are really binary data

public Properties load(String propertiesString) {
    Properties properties = new Properties();
    properties.load(new StringReader(propertiesString));
    return properties;
}