Special characters parsing in Ktor

Question

I am trying to parse some special characters through the api's with Ktor in a KMM project but it seems like Ktor doesn't support it ?.

For eg :- I am trying to parse "Saut� Pans" here "�" is a special character and Ktor throws an exception saying :- io.ktor.utils.io.charsets.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1. Now I have tried passing different headers for example passing different ContentType to UTF-8 or ISO-8859-2 but didn't help.

Whereas parsing the same api response with Gson() works for me.

Any solution or workaround so that for now so that I can parse such kind of special characters in my response ?

Could you please describe an example response from a server? — Aleksei Tirman, Nov 09 '21 at 09:10
It is an array of some products which contains id and name and the name field has some special charcters in it — WhiteSpidy., Nov 09 '21 at 11:08
I mean could you please share an example HTTP response with headers and body? — Aleksei Tirman, Nov 09 '21 at 13:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 09 '21 at 09:07

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You could try out

install(ContentEncoding){
    gzip()
}

answered Nov 09 '21 at 09:07

Róbert Nagy

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not sure what is gzip() ? It cannot import or do anything – WhiteSpidy. Nov 09 '21 at 10:12

Special characters parsing in Ktor

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