character corruption

[shashank bezalwar]

Hi all, i am reading from a file having unicodebig or unicodelittle encoding. I am converting it to utf8 and saving to database using java class. The code works fine on windows but when i run the same code on fedora the characters get corrupted. Can any one please tell me what i am doing wrong?
This is the code:

while ((charsRead = assetReader.read(buf)) != -1)
{
StringBuffer enconBuffer = null;
enconBuffer =new StringBuffer();
enconBuffer.append(buf, 0, charsRead);
byte[] contents = new byte[enconBuffer.length()];
contents = enconBuffer.toString().getBytes();
enconBuffer = null;
String asString =null;
asString = new String(contents, encoding); contents=null;
byte[] utf8Bytes = asString.getBytes("UTF8");
asString=null;
String utf8String = new String (utf8Bytes, 0, utf8Bytes.length, "UTF8");
buffer.append(utf8String);

}