PROTON-1462: specify the charset to ensure the 'plain' helper method uses UTF-8
diff --git a/proton-j/src/main/java/org/apache/qpid/proton/engine/impl/SaslImpl.java b/proton-j/src/main/java/org/apache/qpid/proton/engine/impl/SaslImpl.java
index 56567fe..daeb141 100644
--- a/proton-j/src/main/java/org/apache/qpid/proton/engine/impl/SaslImpl.java
+++ b/proton-j/src/main/java/org/apache/qpid/proton/engine/impl/SaslImpl.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import static org.apache.qpid.proton.engine.impl.ByteBufferUtils.pourBufferToArray;
 
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
@@ -443,8 +444,8 @@
     {
         client();
         _chosenMechanism = Symbol.valueOf("PLAIN");
-        byte[] usernameBytes = username.getBytes();
-        byte[] passwordBytes = password.getBytes();
+        byte[] usernameBytes = username.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+        byte[] passwordBytes = password.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
         byte[] data = new byte[usernameBytes.length+passwordBytes.length+2];
         System.arraycopy(usernameBytes, 0, data, 1, usernameBytes.length);
         System.arraycopy(passwordBytes, 0, data, 2+usernameBytes.length, passwordBytes.length);
diff --git a/proton-j/src/test/java/org/apache/qpid/proton/engine/impl/SaslImplTest.java b/proton-j/src/test/java/org/apache/qpid/proton/engine/impl/SaslImplTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ec524b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/proton-j/src/test/java/org/apache/qpid/proton/engine/impl/SaslImplTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
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+package org.apache.qpid.proton.engine.impl;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+
+import org.apache.qpid.proton.amqp.Binary;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+public class SaslImplTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testPlainHelperEncodesExpectedResponse() {
+        TransportImpl transport = new TransportImpl();
+        SaslImpl sasl = new SaslImpl(transport, 512);
+
+        // Use a username + password with a unicode char that encodes
+        // differently under changing charsets
+        String username = "username-with-unicode" + "\u1F570";
+        String password = "password-with-unicode" + "\u1F570";
+
+        byte[] usernameBytes = username.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+        byte[] passwordBytes = password.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+
+        byte[] expectedResponseBytes = new byte[usernameBytes.length + passwordBytes.length + 2];
+        System.arraycopy(usernameBytes, 0, expectedResponseBytes, 1, usernameBytes.length);
+        System.arraycopy(passwordBytes, 0, expectedResponseBytes, 2 + usernameBytes.length, passwordBytes.length);
+
+        sasl.plain(username, password);
+
+        assertEquals("Unexpected response data", new Binary(expectedResponseBytes), sasl.getChallengeResponse());
+    }
+
+}