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

Archimed's answer is correct. However, that can be done simply by providing an additional header in the HTTP request:

Accept-charset: utf-8

No need to remove anything or use any other library.

For example,

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.website.com
Connection: close
Accept: text/html
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.10 Safari/537.36
DNT: 1
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: utf-8

Most probably your request doesn't have any Accept-Charset header.