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UTF-8 Encoding in java, retrieving data from website

I'm trying to get data from website which is encoded in UTF-8 and insert them into the database (MYSQL). Database is also encoded in UTF-8.

This is the method I use to download data from specific site. 

public String download(String url) throws java.io.IOException {
 java.io.InputStream s = null;
 java.io.InputStreamReader r = null;
 StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder();
 try {
 s = (java.io.InputStream)new URL(url).getContent();
 r = new java.io.InputStreamReader(s, "UTF-8");
 char[] buffer = new char[4*1024];
 int n = 0;
 while (n >= 0) {
 n = r.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length);
 if (n > 0) {
 content.append(buffer, 0, n);
 }
 }
 }
 finally {
 if (r != null) r.close();
 if (s != null) s.close(); 
 }
 return content.toString();
 }

If encoding is set to 'UTF-8' (r = new java.io.InputStreamReader(s, "UTF-8"); ) data inserted into database seems to look OK, but when I try to display it, I am getting something like this: C�te d'Ivoire, instead of Côte d'Ivoire.

All my websites are encoded in UTF-8.

Please help.

If encoding is set to 'windows-1252' (r = new java.io.InputStreamReader(s, "windows-1252"); ) everything works fine and I am getting Côte d'Ivoire on my website (), but in java this title looks like 'C? ́te d'Ivoire' what breaks other things, such as for example links. What does it mean ?

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  • I am using php/apache, and YES, I set encoding to UTF-8: header('Content-Type:text/html; charset=UTF-8'); Commented Jan 5, 2010 at 10:08
  • Be careful that setting the header does not mean setting the encoding. You should specify in your question that you are using PHP/apache, because your java code makes this ambiguous. Commented Jan 5, 2010 at 10:10
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    you need to define the encoding when you write it as well, don't know how this works in PHP, but what you're setting in the comment is just a instruction on how the client should interpret the content stream. Commented Jan 5, 2010 at 10:10

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