title: UTF-16 to ASCII conversion in Java
body: <p>Having ignored it all this time, I am currently forcing myself to learn more about unicode in Java.  There is an exercise I need to do about converting a UTF-16 string to 8-bit ASCII.  Can someone please enlighten me how to do this in Java?  I understand that you can't represent all possible unicode values in ASCII, so in this case I want a code which exceeds 0xFF to be merely added anyway (bad data should also just be added silently).</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>