Android default charset when sending http post/put - Problems with special characters

Question

I have configured the apache httpClient like so:

HttpProtocolParams.setContentCharset(httpParameters, \"UTF-8\");
HttpProtocolParams.setHttpElementCharset(ht         


        

Answer 1

Apparently, I forgot to set the StringEntity's charset to UTF-8. These lines did the trick:

    httpPut.setEntity(new StringEntity(body, HTTP.UTF_8));
    httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity(body, HTTP.UTF_8));

So, there are at least two levels to set the charset in the Android client when sending an http post with non-ascii characters.

1. The rest client itself itself
2. The StringEntity

UPDATE: As Samuel pointed out in the comments, the modern way to do it is to use a ContentType, like so:

    final StringEntity se = new StringEntity(body, ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON);
    httpPut.setEntity(se);