What exactly returns EntityUtils.toString(response)?

Question

I\'m doing my API REST and I saw that in a lot of examples people use EntityUtils.toString(response) to get their response into a String

Answer 1

Beware the default charset of EntityUtils.toString:

Get the entity content as a String, using the provided default character set if none is found in the entity. If defaultCharset is null, the default "ISO-8859-1" is used.

org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity, "UTF-8");