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greentree
greentree

Reputation: 45

Android url in UTF8

I am trying to download image using an url like:

url --> http://www.example.com/path/to/image-ğüçöşı.jpg

InputStream input = new java.net.URL(url).openStream();
Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input);

However in the first line app crashes. Because it has a character like "ı" or "ç". If url doesn't has those character it doesn't crash and works fine. I could almost say i tried most of the solutions like utf8 encoding and etc, including giving "UTF8" params to HttpClient.

It would be appreciated very much if you could help me. I am looking for any solution that doesn't slow down the code very much.

Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 654

Answers (1)

Sebastian Pakieła
Sebastian Pakieła

Reputation: 3029

Encode your url or only image name with this code

String query = URLEncoder.encode("strangeChars", "utf-8");

Upvotes: 2

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