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I am having weird character encoding issues with a JSON array that is grabbed from a web page. The server is sending back this header:
Content-Type text/javascript; charset=UTF-8
Also I can look at the JSON output in Firefox or any browser and Unicode characters display properly. The response will sometimes contain words from another language with accent symbols and such. However I am getting those weird question marks when I pull it down and put it to a string in Java. Here is my code:
HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
HttpProtocolParams.setVersion(params, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);
HttpProtocolParams.setContentCharset(params, "utf-8");
params.setBooleanParameter("http.protocol.expect-continue", false);
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(params);
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://www.example.com/json_array.php");
HttpResponse response;
try {
response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
if(response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == 200){
// Connection was established. Get the content.
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
// If the response does not enclose an entity, there is no need
// to worry about connection release
if (entity != null) {
// A Simple JSON Response Read
InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
String jsonText = convertStreamToString(instream);
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Response: "+jsonText, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "ERROR: Malformed URL - "+e.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "ERROR: IO Exception - "+e.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (JSONExcepti