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Masood Delfarah
Masood Delfarah

Reputation: 697

java UTF-8 string

I want to convert a java string that contains UTF-8 characters to a format that a browser can use( the string will be used as URL ) What exactly I mean is that url.openStream() cannot open a webpage, when url contains Persian letters.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 549

Answers (2)

Ted Hopp
Ted Hopp

Reputation: 234857

Java Strings do not contain UTF-8 characters. From the docs for Character:

The Java 2 platform uses the UTF-16 representation in char arrays and in the String and StringBuffer classes.

You can use the URLEncoder class to encode a string so that url.openStream() works.

Upvotes: 1

Matt Ball
Matt Ball

Reputation: 360046

You need to percent-encode the non-ASCII characters in the URL. See how to encode URL to avoid special characters in java and URLEncoder#encode(String, String).

Upvotes: 1

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