Getting strange characters from a JSON response from Facebook

Question

Hi all. I'm having troubles when I want show a JSON response. I extract correctly the strings but when there is characters like 'á' or '¿' instead of these ones appears 'Ãi' or '¿'. I think that the response comes in non-UTF8 enconding, but I cannot find how to convert it.

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EDIT: I'm trying to do a GET request to this URL: https://graph.facebook.com/me to retrieve the info of my profile passing the access token.

HttpGet get = new HttpGet(url);
response = client.execute(get);

To extract the response I do this:

JSONObject json_object;
response.getEntity().writeTo(ostream);
json_object = new JSONObject(ostream.toString());
String name = json_object.getString("name");
Log.d("NAME",name);

Note that I'm programming with Android SDK.

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Thanks.

Answer 1

You can do it by using import org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils,if you don't have please download it.

for example

You can use it by StringEscapeUtils strutil = new StringEscapeUtils(); and then title= strutil.escapeHtml(title);

title    = title.replaceAll("\"", "''");
        desc_val = desc_val.replaceAll("\"","''");

        title = strutil.escapeHtml(title);
        desc_val = strutil.escapeHtml(desc_val);
        url_val = strutil.escapeHtml(url_val);

and also try to convert it into HTMl form,by using Html.fromHtml(title);

I hope it may help you.