Converting String to Android JSONObject loses utf-8

Question

I am trying to get a (JSON formatted) String from a URL and consume it as a Json object. I lose UTF-8 encoding when I convert the String to JSONObject.

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Answer 1

You're telling Java to convert the string (with key message) to bytes using ISO-8859-1 and than to create a new String from these bytes, interpreted as UTF-8.

new String(reader.getString("messages").getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8");

You could simply use:

String messages = reader.getString("messages");