How to check the charset of string in Java?

Question

In my application I\'m getting the user info from LDAP and sometimes the full username comes in a wrong charset. For example:

ТеÑÑ61 ТеÑÑовиÑ61
         


        

Answer 1

Your LDAP database is set up incorrectly. The application putting data into it should convert to a known character set encoding, in your case, likely UTF_16. Pick a standard. All methods of detecting encoding are guesses.

The application writing the value is the only one that knows definitively which encoding it is using and can properly convert to another encoding such as UTF_16.