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Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings?

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On 7/20/2017 4:22 PM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> I get an internet stream, in this case a signature from the G Suite Google feed.
> It returns from this method:
> org.apache.http.HttpResponse.getEntity().getContent()
> 
> Then I try to pass it into org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.toString().
> This method accepts a stream and a charset to return a String.
> 
> I tried to pass it a null and it took the default, which on our system came up with "windows-1252", and the new signatures looked wrong.
> I passed in "UTF-8" and they look right, at least for now.  Will this always work, or how would I choose what charset it should convert with?

     Just guessing:

	https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-ga/httpcore/apidocs/org/apache/http/HttpEntity.html#getContentEncoding()

(Disclaimer: I have almost no personal experience with these Apache
packages -- Apacheges?)

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Anyone know anything about string encodings? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-20 13:22 -0700
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    Re: Anyone know anything about string encodings? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 06:07 -0700
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