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Asked: 2026-06-07T15:44:24+00:00

In my application I’m getting the user info from LDAP and sometimes the full

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In my application I’m getting the user info from LDAP and sometimes the full username comes in a wrong charset. For example: 

ТеÑÑ61 ТеÑÑовиÑ61

It can also be in English or in Russian and displayed correctly. If the username changes it’s updated in database. Even if I change the value in the db it wont solve the problem.

I can fix it before saving by doing this 

new String(incorrect.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8");

However, if I will use it for the string including characters in Russian (for ex., “Тест61 Тестович61”) I get something like this “????61 ????????61”.

Can you please suggest something that can determine the charset of string?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Strings in java, AFAIK, do not retain their original encoding – they are always stored internally in some Unicode form.
    You want to detect the charset of the original stream/bytes – this is why I think your String.toBytes() call is too late.

    Ideally if you could get the input stream you are reading from, you can run it through something like this: http://code.google.com/p/juniversalchardet/

    There are plenty of other charset detectors out there as well

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