java UTF-8 string

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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.

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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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).

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answered Dec 18 '11 at 18:40

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So is there a method in Java to do that for me? Thanks – Masood Delfarah Dec 18 '11 at 18:41

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 18 '11 at 18:42

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.

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