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

You can eliminate the server as the problem by using curl to send the same data. If it works with curl use --trace to check the output.

Ensure you are sending the content body as bytes. Compare the HTTP request from Android with the output from the successful curl request.