Android Java UTF-8 HttpClient Problem

Question

I am having weird character encoding issues with a JSON array that is grabbed from a web page. The server is sending back this header:

Content-Type text/javascri

Answer 1

Try this:

if (entity != null) {
    // A Simple JSON Response Read
    // InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
    // String jsonText = convertStreamToString(instream);

    String jsonText = EntityUtils.toString(entity, HTTP.UTF_8);

    // ... toast code here
}