BufferedReader automatic encoding type

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I am using BufferedReader to get data fro ma url.

 URL url = new URL("http://");
 BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream(), "windows-1251"));

On some url's encoding is windows-1251 (cyrilyc) so i specified that in the reader. But on some ones, enconding is different, e.g KOI8-R Any way to get the data from both sources without using naother reader? I really can use only one here.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/499010/java-how-to-determine-the-correct-charset-encoding-of-a-stream — Romain Hippeau, Jul 23 '11 at 12:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '11 at 12:35

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No, the BufferedReader cannot examine the Content-Enconding header. You have to supply that. Or use a library for encoding recognition/detection.

answered Jul 23 '11 at 12:35

Michael-O

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If you need general enconding recognition, try [ICU4J](http://site.icu-project.org/). In the case you need something more HTTP/HTML specific, try the [Jericho HTML Parser]/http://jericho.htmlparser.net/docs/index.html) with it's [`Source`](http://jericho.htmlparser.net/docs/javadoc/net/htmlparser/jericho/Source.html#Source(java.net.URLConnection)) class. Also make sure that your JVM supports your encodings. – Michael-O Jul 23 '11 at 13:53

BufferedReader automatic encoding type

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