XML parse encoding problems in Android?

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I'm parsing an incoming xml feed, in android to use it in app widget, the problem, is that the french characters are not encoded correctly in that xml like that :

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and I'm parsing the file like this :

            InputSource isrc = new InputSource(this.feed.openStream());
            isrc.setEncoding("UTF-8");

            DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
            Document dom = builder.parse(isrc.getByteStream());
            Element root = dom.getDocumentElement();

Is there a way to get rid of these strange characters ?

Thanks.

jboi · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-18 09:30:25Z

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You hard coded set the encoding to "UTF-8" but what encoding is actually used by the sender?

In an XML you usually get meta information up front like <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>. You should use the encoding-value from the meta information for correct encoding.

Another issue in the code is, that you basically bypass the encoding with the line Document dom = builder.parse(isrc.getByteStream());. You should pass the InputSource instead:

Document dom = builder.parse(isrc);.

I actually use a Reader as in the follwing code, because then I use Java's encoding directly:

Document dom = builder.parse(
    new InputSource(
        new InputStreamReader(
                feed.openStream(),
                "[encoding goes here, usually UTF-8]")));

answered Sep 18, 2013 at 9:30

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Houssem Over a year ago

Thanks, finally found what's going wrong, infact the producer set xml as "utf-8", but when I parsed it as "ISO-8859-1" everything goes OK

Ankur Aggarwal · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-18 09:08:42Z

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Please see this

I suggest trying to use UTF-16 encoding once

answered Sep 18, 2013 at 9:08

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Houssem Over a year ago

Thanks I saw that, but the problem, is that's not me who produces the xml and I have no hand on it to make it right. I must find a solution that processes this file as it is.

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