String encoding of Arabic characters in UTF-8

Question

An Arabic name shall be sent via SOAP. The name is encoded like this:

<value>&#217;&#133;&#216;&#173;&#217;&#133;&#216;&#175; &#216;&#185;&#216;&#168;&#216;&#175;&#216;&#167;&#217;&#132;&#217;&#132;&#217;&#135; &#217;&#135;&#217;&#132;&#216;&#167;&#217;&#132;</value>

However when converting the above to UTF-8 with some online converters the result looks like this:
محمد عبدالله هلال

What am I missing here so that the correct Arabic characters are displayed?

Thanks,
Robert

Answer 1

This has been the problem Sending UTF-8 data from Android. Your code would work fine except that you will have to encode your String to Base64 . At Server you just decode Base64 String back. It worked for me. I can share if you need the code.

Answer 2

The encoded data you showed does encode the nonsensical data you showed (or similar, because it actually encodes some unprintable characters as well).

So your input is already wrong.

You might be able to salvage it, but the correct solution would be to make sure that the input is correct in the first place.