这里有一个解决方案，避免执行Charset查找每次转换:

import java.nio.charset.Charset;

private final Charset UTF8_CHARSET = Charset.forName("UTF-8");

String decodeUTF8(byte[] bytes) {
    return new String(bytes, UTF8_CHARSET);
}

byte[] encodeUTF8(String string) {
    return string.getBytes(UTF8_CHARSET);
}

Charset UTF8_CHARSET = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
String strISO = "{\"name\":\"א\"}";
System.out.println(strISO);
byte[] b = strISO.getBytes();
for (byte c: b) {
    System.out.print("[" + c + "]");
}
String str = new String(b, UTF8_CHARSET);
System.out.println(str);

Reader reader = new BufferedReader(
    new InputStreamReader(
        new ByteArrayInputStream(
            string.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)), StandardCharsets.UTF_8));

为了解码一系列字节到一个正常的字符串消息，我最终得到了它与UTF-8编码工作与以下代码:

/* Convert a list of UTF-8 numbers to a normal String
 * Usefull for decoding a jms message that is delivered as a sequence of bytes instead of plain text
 */
public String convertUtf8NumbersToString(String[] numbers){
    int length = numbers.length;
    byte[] data = new byte[length];

    for(int i = 0; i< length; i++){
        data[i] = Byte.parseByte(numbers[i]);
    }
    return new String(data, Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
}

//query is your json   

 DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
 HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost("http://my.site/test/v1/product/search?qy=");

 StringEntity input = new StringEntity(query, "UTF-8");
 input.setContentType("application/json");
 postRequest.setEntity(input);   
 HttpResponse response=response = httpClient.execute(postRequest);

将字符串转换为字节[]:

String s = "some text here";
byte[] b = s.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

将字节[]转换为字符串:

byte[] b = {(byte) 99, (byte)97, (byte)116};
String s = new String(b, StandardCharsets.US_ASCII);

当然，您应该使用正确的编码名称。我的示例使用了US-ASCII和UTF-8这两种常用的编码。