How to read a InputStream with UTF-8?

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Welcome all I'm developing a Java app, that calls a PHP from internet that it's giving me a XML response. In the response is contained this word: "Próximo", but when i parse the nodes of the XML and obtain the response into a String variable, I'm receiving the word like this: "Pr& oacute;ximo". I'm sure that the problem is that i'm using different encoding in the Java app then encoding of PHP script. Then, i supose i must set encoding to the same as in your PHP xml, UTF-8 This is the code i'm using to geat the XML file from the PHP. ¿What should i change in this code to set the encoding to UTF-8? (note that im not using bufered reader, i'm using input stream) ``` InputStream in = null; String url = "http://www.myurl.com" try { URL formattedUrl = new URL(url); URLConnection connection = formattedUrl.openConnection(); HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) connection; httpConnection.setAllowUserInteraction(false); httpConnection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true); httpConn…

Accepted Answer

When you get your `InputStream` read `byte[]`s from it. When you create your Strings, pass in the `CharSet`for "UTF-8". Example:

```
byte[] buffer = new byte[contentLength];
int bytesRead = inputStream.read(buffer);
String page = new String(buffer, 0, bytesRead, "UTF-8");
```

Note, you're probably going to want to make your buffer some sane size (like 1024), and continuously called `inputStream.read(buffer)`.

@Amir Pashazadeh

Yes, you can also use an InputStreamReader, and try changing the parse() line to:

```
Document doc = db.parse(new InputSource(new InputStreamReader(in, "UTF-8")));
```

How to read a InputStream with UTF-8?

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