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Special charaters show square box in webservice response

Here is the word pronounciation coming in my web services response tækˈsɑ:nəmi but when i show it android textview it shows like this tækËsÉ:nÉmi And also sometime it shows Square boxes in place of some characters when i show it in android textview.

Please guide or suggest some solution.

Ali

Solution

  • I have found the way to solve this after consulting with a genius guy.

            DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
        httpPost.setHeader("Content-Type",
                "application/x-www-form- urlencoded");
        HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
        HttpEntity httpEntity = httpResponse.getEntity();

    Here is the magical line of code.

            xml = EntityUtils.toString(httpEntity, HTTP.UTF_8);

    Cheers. Ali