Question

I’m working on a rss parser in android
(upgrading a parser I found on the internet).
From what I know SAX Parser recognize the encoding automatically from the xml tag, but when I try to parse a feed that declare windows-1255 encoding it doesn’t parsing it and throws and exception.
I tried few things:

1. final InputSource source = new InputSource(feed);
   Reader isr = new InputStreamReader(feed);
   source.setCharacterStream(isr);
   

2. I even tried telling him the specific encoding.

   source.setEncoding("Windows-1255");
   

3. Tried to look at the locator:

   @Override
   public void setDocumentLocator(Locator locator) {
   }
   

And it recognize the encoding as UTF-16.

Please help me solve this annoying problem!
Sorry for the mess with code snippets the code button refuse to work for some reason.

Answer 1

Chances are the platform itself doesn’t know about the “windows-1255” encoding. After all, it’s a Windows-based encoding – I wouldn’t want to rely on it being available on any other platforms, particularly mobile ones where things are generally cut down to the “must-have” options.