HttpPost with StringEntity having special characters like ®, seeing ¿½` instead of ®

Question

I need to use special characters for stringentity as below.

DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
HttpEntity entity = new StringEntity("test®");
httpPost.setEntity(entity);
httpPost.setHeader("Accept-Encoding", "UTF-8");

HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
BufferedReader reader =  new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader((response.getEntity().getContent())));
while ((reader.readLine()) != null) {
    System.out.println (reader.readLine());
}
reader.close();

The output contains test� instead of test® in the response.

Answer 1

Change to:

    HttpEntity entity = new StringEntity("test®", "UTF-8");