I know nothing about JNI - so I hit up Wikipedia - and it has some interesting examples.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Native_Interface
http://java.sun.com/developer/online...jnistring.html (thanks to Google)

>> I'll need to use this string as a char* format to input into other DLLs
Hopefully, these DLL's support UTF8 encoded strings in Chinese.

gg