Symbols show up as � after i parse an html webpage using jsoup and display contents in android listview

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I would like to understand this problem i have been having. Im parsing an html source page and displaying the content i want in a list view in android. I parse the page using this command.

  doc = Jsoup.connect(myURL).get();

Symbols such as é or “ ” show up as �. I understand they are not being recognized by the encoding mechanism but is it because of jsoup or android? Android default encoding im using is Utf-8 should it not support that? If it should not how and what should i change it to? Thank you for you help.

It has something to do with ASCII caracters shown in UTF8 or the other way around. — Dominique Fortin, Apr 01 '16 at 16:49
Please, have a look at this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7716688/5885018 — statosdotcom, Apr 01 '16 at 17:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 01 '16 at 17:01

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é in ISO-8859-1 (extend ASCII) is the value 233 but in UTF-8 it is the value 195 folowed by 169.

You need to know in what encoding the caracters are saved in because only the values are saved and then interpreted.

answered Apr 01 '16 at 17:01

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Jonh Smith · Answer 2 · 2016-04-02T14:40:39.023

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Thank you guys for the help. making the jsoup call like this :

 Document document = Jsoup.parse(new URL(url).openStream(), "ISO-8859-1", url);

was the way to go i then had to find out the real encoding of the webpage in chrome you can find it in 'more tools' and in my case it was windowns-1252. One line of code solved the problem:

 doc = Jsoup.parse(new URL(url).openStream(), "windows-1252", url);

edited Apr 02 '16 at 14:40

answered Apr 02 '16 at 14:23

Jonh Smith

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Symbols show up as � after i parse an html webpage using jsoup and display contents in android listview

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