HttpPost with StringEntity having special characters like ®, seeing ¿½` instead of ®

Question

I need to use special characters for stringentity as below.

DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost         


        

Answer 1

Change to:

    HttpEntity entity = new StringEntity("test®", "UTF-8"); 

Answer 2

Instead of using StringEntity I've just used ByteArrayEntity and it worked:

String string = "ã@í";
HttpEntity httpEntity = new ByteArrayEntity(string.getBytes("UTF-8"));
request.addHeader("Content-type", "application/xml;charset=UTF-8");
request.setEntity(httpEntity);