HttpEntity decoding to string encoding issue in android

Question

I know that this should be fundamental, but I didn’t have an education :( And I do not understand this, everywhere it seems obvious to people. I get that one side is encoding data with its set, and the android is probably expecting the other, but what can I do to translate?

My application runs a receive request on the Google Maps api to get the address from Lat / lng. But I could not decode the result correctly, as the French è is displayed as è

I am missing xp in Java to figure out what to do. This is due to UTF-8, right?

What should I do?

response = client.execute(httpGet); HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity(); InputStream stream = entity.getContent(); int b; while ((b = stream.read()) != -1) { stringBuilder.append((char) b); } JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(); jsonObject = new JSONObject(stringBuilder.toString()); retList = new ArrayList<Address>(); if("OK".equalsIgnoreCase(jsonObject.getString("status"))){ JSONArray results = jsonObject.getJSONArray("results"); for (int i=0;i<results.length();i++ ) { JSONObject result = results.getJSONObject(i); String indiStr = result.getString("formatted_address"); Address addr = new Address(Locale.ITALY); addr.setAddressLine(0, indiStr); Dbg.d(TAG, "adresse :"+addr.toString()); retList.add(addr); } } 

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

Try using UTF-8,

instead of InputStream try something like

 String responseBody = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), HTTP.UTF_8); 

Answer 2

you can use bufferreader
your code will look like this:

 InputStream stream = entity.getContent(); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream, "UTF-8")); int b; while ((b = br.read()) != -1) { stringBuilder.append(b); }