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Asked: 2026-06-01T03:57:14+00:00

I have a problem with sax parser and encoded text. I try to parse

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I have a problem with sax parser and encoded text. I try to parse RSS in ISO-8859-2 (http://www.sbazar.cz/rss.xml?keyword=pes) this way:

InputStream responseStream = connection.getInputStream();
Response response = mRequest.createResponse();

Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(responseStream);
InputSource is = new InputSource(reader);
is.setEncoding("ISO-8859-2");

SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
saxParser.parse(is, response);

but parser returns strings with strange symbols. I tried a lot of things, but nothing helped me 🙁 Can somebody help me please?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have you tried setting the charset of the InputStreamReader:

    Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(responseStream, Charset.forName("ISO-8859-2"));
InputSource is = new InputSource(reader);

    The InputStreamReader(InputStream) constructor, if you don’t specify the charset, uses the default charset (which in my machine is windows-1252).

    So in your current set up, the bytes are being interpreted as (probably) windows-1252 characters, after which i don’t think you can re-interpret them as ISO-8859-2.

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