diff --git a/src/br/com/model/utilities/StringHelper.java b/src/br/com/model/utilities/StringHelper.java
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+package br.com.model.utilities;
+
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+
+public class StringHelper {
+	
+	/**
+	 * @param String
+	 * @return String
+	 * converte de UTF-8 -> internal Java String format*/
+    public static String convertFromUTF8(String s) {
+        String out = null;
+        try {
+            out = new String(s.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8");
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        return out;
+    }
+ 
+    /**
+	 * @param String
+	 * @return String
+	 * convert from internal Java String format -> UTF-8*/
+    public static String convertToUTF8(String s) {
+        String out = null;
+        try {
+            out = new String(s.getBytes("UTF-8"), "ISO-8859-1");
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        return out;
+    }
+}
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