}
        return str.getBytes(encoding);
    }

    /**
     * Encodes a string into UTF-16LE (Unicode Little Endian) bytes.
     *
     * @param str the string to encode
     * @return the string as bytes (UTF16-LE)
     */
    public static byte[] getUNIBytes(final String str) {
        return getBytes(str, UNI_ENCODING);
    }

    /**
     * Encodes a string into ASCII bytes.
     *

 * string {@code "Foo<Bar>"}.
 *
 * <p><b>Note:</b> This class is similar to {@link CharEscaper} but with one very important
 * difference. A CharEscaper can only process Java <a
 * href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16">UTF16</a> characters in isolation and may not cope
 * when it encounters surrogate pairs. This class facilitates the correct escaping of all Unicode
 * characters.
 *

* Support loading UTF16 files if a byte-order-mark is present ([#39008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39008), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))