How to handle special characters in json string

Question

I have an app where I store user entered text into a json string. I then store that json string into a file. And then later on display it back by reading the file, extracting th

Answer 1

You have to use "UTF-8" for using this kind of special character. For details read http://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/charset/Charset.html

You have to encode for your expected character like this way :

URLEncoder.encode("Your Special Character", "UTF8");

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