Question

I am receiving data from JSON in arabic using UTF8 encoding

“\u0639\u0644\u0649”

when displaying it in textview its converted to “علي”

How I can get UTF8 back from this arabic text, assuming that I get arabic text input from keyboard

Thanks

Answer 1

Strings are always in Unicode, only byte arrays have an encoding.

Your initial statement makes little sense. You are taking a String that contains three Arabic characters and converting it to a byte array in the default encoding, then converting these bytes back to a String assuming UTF-8 encoding.

scala> val str = "\u0639\u0644\u0649"
str: java.lang.String = ???

scala> str.length
res0: Int = 3

I see no benefits in this over string = "\u0639\u0644\u0649". If you need the bytes that represent this string in UTF-8 encoding, you can call string.getBytes("UTF-8"), but it’s more likely that your communications library will take a string and let you specify the encoding somehow.