decode windows 1256 to utf-8 in android

Question

I have a string which is decoded by windows-1256 like this

A0C8E5CFC7CF2DC7DDDEE5ED

I want to encode that to UTF-8 in android. I tried to encode like this

String input = "A0C8E5CFC7CF2DC7DDDEE5ED";
    try {
        String message = new String(input.getBytes(), "windows-1256");
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

but I didn't see what expected expression. I wrote some codes in C# for this purpose ,like this

int index = 0;
while (response[index] != 0x00)
    result = result + Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1256").GetString(response, index++, 1);

it works fine.

does anyone have any idea how to solve it?

Thanks in advance

I asked for the type. You told me the content. Then put complete code in your post. — greenapps, Apr 18 '17 at 17:50
`String input = "A0C8E5CFC7CF2DC7DDDEE5ED";`. That is not a 1256 encoded string to begin with. Strings in java are utf-8. — greenapps, Apr 18 '17 at 17:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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First you convert your hex string into byte array. See this post.

Then, convert the byte array byte[] into UTF-8 using

String str = new String(byte[], "windows-1256");

UTF-8 is the native android encoding. Hope it helps.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered May 17 '17 at 02:44

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