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user3388473
user3388473

Reputation: 963

How to convert Shift-JIS encoded string to UTF-8?

I am getting html source from Aozora Bunko. Html file is Shift-JIS encoded. I am trying to get book title and author. Then I want to record title and author into SQLite(UTF-8) database.

    String[] splittedResult = result.split("\"title\">");
            splittedResult = splittedResult[1].split("</h1>");
            String title = splittedResult[0];
            byte[] b = null;
            try {
                b = title.getBytes("Shift_JIS");
            } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e1.printStackTrace();
            }
            String value=null;
            try {
                value = new String(b, "UTF-8");
            } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e1.printStackTrace();
            }

...
myDatabase.addBookInformation(value, author);

Result is like this: latin letters are showing normally. But japanese letters are shown by blocks question mark inside (please do not pay attention to null values)

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How to solve this problem?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4417

Answers (1)

user3388473
user3388473

Reputation: 963

As @Codo pointed out, solution for this problem was before. I changed this

s = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), "UTF-8");

to this

s = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), "Shift_JIS");

And now there is no need for encoding.

String[] splittedResult = result.split("\"title\">");
        splittedResult = splittedResult[1].split("</h1>");
        String title = splittedResult[0];
        /** I HAVE TAKEN THIS PART OF MY CODE
        byte[] b = null;
        try {
            b = title.getBytes("Shift_JIS");
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e1.printStackTrace();
        }
        String value=null;
        try {
            value = new String(b, "UTF-8");
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e1.printStackTrace();
        }
        **/

Upvotes: 1

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