JsonReader converting unicode characters wrongly

Question

I am building an Android application and I have JSON data which contains Unicode strings. When receiving the data and using InputStreamReader to parse it, the Unicode strings stay fine. However, when I use JsonReader to parse the JSON, it appears to have converted it into some format. I have looked at the source code and it doesn't seem like it does anything out of the ordinary (obviously I might be missing something) - it just takes the string and saves it into a String variable. Does anyone have any ideas on why my Unicode strings are being converted incorrectly?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can decode your stream to string using InputStreamReader and specify your encoding (e.g. UTF-8 or Unicode), then pass your string to JSONObject or JSONArray to create such object.

JsonReader reader = new JsonReader(new InputStreamReader(in, "UTF-8"));

Reference documents:

• http://developer.android.com/reference/java/io/InputStreamReader.html
• http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/JsonReader.html
• http://developer.android.com/reference/org/json/JSONObject.html
• http://developer.android.com/reference/org/json/JSONArray.html