HttpPost with StringEntity having special characters like ®, seeing ¿½` instead of ®

Question

I need to use special characters for stringentity as below.

DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
HttpEntity entity = new StringEntity("test®");
httpPost.setEntity(entity);
httpPost.setHeader("Accept-Encoding", "UTF-8");

HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
BufferedReader reader =  new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader((response.getEntity().getContent())));
while ((reader.readLine()) != null) {
    System.out.println (reader.readLine());
}
reader.close();

The output contains testï¿½ instead of test® in the response.

Define "seeing" - if you're using `System.out.prinln` are you sure your console uses the same encoding as the data you received? — Ian Roberts, Dec 09 '13 at 15:09
The `StringEntity` uses `ISO_8859_1` for the content charset. You have to use another constructor which allows you to pass in the encoding. `new StringEntity("test®", "UTF-8")` should do the trick. — M. Deinum, Dec 09 '13 at 15:10
Another day, another person confused by character encodings. — Cole Tobin, Dec 09 '13 at 15:15
@cole I wouldn't hold this against them in this case. It isn't immediately clear at which point the content is serialized. — Sotirios Delimanolis, Dec 09 '13 at 15:16
Thanks. This is working. new StringEntity("test®", "UTF-8") did the trick — java techie, Dec 09 '13 at 15:43

score 47 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 09 '13 at 15:14

47

Change to:

    HttpEntity entity = new StringEntity("test®", "UTF-8");

answered Dec 09 '13 at 15:14

Italo Borssatto

15,044
7
62
88

Thanks. This is working. new StringEntity("test®", "UTF-8") did the trick – java techie Dec 09 '13 at 15:32
Above solution is not working for me. It is showing [0xc3][0x83][0xe2][0x80][0x93] for Ö character. I using HttpEntity params =new StringEntity(xmlfileString,"UTF-8"); – Brijesh Jun 05 '17 at 08:11
1

@Brijesh Are you using System.out.prinln to read the data? Please, check the encoding used by the "tool" you're using to check the value. – Italo Borssatto Jun 05 '17 at 10:15

Matheus Santz · Answer 2 · 2022-05-05T17:03:15.020

3

Instead of StringEntity, I'm using ByteArrayEntity:

String string = "ã@í";
HttpEntity httpEntity = new ByteArrayEntity(string.getBytes("UTF-8"));
request.addHeader("Content-type", "application/xml;charset=UTF-8");
request.setEntity(httpEntity);

edited May 05 '22 at 17:03

answered Aug 29 '20 at 07:09

Matheus Santz

538
6
7

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 15 '21 at 08:31

0

In my case, I was already using the answer code, but adding this did the trick (I saw it in the question text)

httpPost.setHeader("Accept-Encoding", "UTF-8");

answered Oct 15 '21 at 08:31

Borja

1,269
1
17
30

HttpPost with StringEntity having special characters like ®, seeing ¿½` instead of ®

3 Answers3

Linked