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raaj
raaj

Reputation: 3291

Symbol parsing hell in Java

I am writing a Java server that takes data from another server. Unfortunately, part of the string it throws out is not able to be 'parsed' by the program. System.out.print prints it as a question mark ?

This wretched question mark symbol cannot be parsed by my client's JSON parser either. Does anyone know how I can remove it?

Trying str.replace with the ? symbol didn't work.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 775

Answers (2)

raaj
raaj

Reputation: 3291

Okay this worked for me:

stringName.replaceAll("[^\\x00-\\x7F]", "");

This was from some answer in stackoverflow but I can't find it now.

Upvotes: 2

Dariusz
Dariusz

Reputation: 22261

It looks like an encoding problem. Your application uses one encoding, while the server uses other.

Using the Charset class will be your answer. Use it when converting received data to String. Most probably you'll have to specify it in a Reader constructor, though I can't say without any code.

Here is the link to appropriate javadoc: InputStreamReader(InputStream, Charset)

Upvotes: 4

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