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Asked: 2026-05-17T20:00:37+00:00

I’m parsing an input stream coming from Facebook. I’m using something like BufferedReader in

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I’m parsing an input stream coming from Facebook. I’m using something like

BufferedReader in =
    new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream(), "UTF-8"));

And then in.readLine to actually read from the stream.

The stream seems to have Unicode characters already encoded in ASCII, so I see things like \u00e4 (with \u actually being two discrete ASCII characters). Right now, I’m fishing for “\u” and decoding the subsequent two hex bytes, turn them into a char and replace the string with them, which is obviously the worst way to do it.

I’m sure there’s a cool way to use a native function to decode the special characters as the stream is being read (I was hoping it could be done on the InputStreamReader layer). But how?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The data format is JSON, which I didn’t mention (and which Thanatos already assumed). Using Android’s JSON parser will automatically decode the characters properly. Parsing JSON yourself is obviously a dumb idea on several levels.

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