Is there a way to use UTF-8 with app engine?

Question

I\'m looking for some explanation on how the app engine deals with character encodings. I\'m working on a client-server application where the server is on app engine.

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Answer 1

Found a way to work around it. This is how I did it:

• Used "application/json; charset=UTF-8" as the content-type. Alternatively, set the response charset to "UTF-8" (either will work fine, no need to do both).

• Base64-encoded the input strings that aren't ASCII-safe and come as UTF-8. Otherwise they get converted to ISO-8859-1 when they get to the servlet, apparently.

• Used resp.getWriter() instead of resp.getOutputStream() to print the JSON response.

After all those conditions were met, I was finally able to output UTF-8 back to the client.