android httpclient and utf-8

Question

I\'m trying to connect to a webservice where my querysting holds some data. The bad thing is that this data contains utf-8 charcters, which renders a problem.

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Answer 1

I think you want a URL encoded query string. If so, use:

String query = "?param=value";
String host = "http://my.host.name.com/";
String encodedUrl = host + UrlEncoder.encode(query,"utf-8");

The basic idea is that you only want to encode the query string, not the host name or protocol.