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french accents giving "<?>" in http responses with correct charset (Java)

Calling an API that returns french sentences, all the accented characters are displayed like <?> in my java code, even if the charset is well defined (application/json;charset=iso-8859-1).

Using postman or my web browser, I don't face any problem. I also tried to call the API with a Content-Type header with the value application/json;charset=UTF-8 or application/json;charset=iso-8859-1 but the problem remains the same. Any idea ?

response.getBody() gives:

{"sentences":[{"fr_value":"il �tait loin","dz_value":"kaan b3id","additional_information":{"personal_prounoun":"HE","verb":"�tre","adjective":"loin","tense":"pass�"}}],"count":1}

new String(response.getBody().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)) gives exactly the same.

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I'm using scribejava.

Edit: even saving the response in a file and opening it with NotePad++, the result is similar: enter image description here

Solution

  • Problem solved using the following code :

          httpResponse.setContentType("application/json;charset=UTF-8");
      mapper.getFactory().configure(JsonGenerator.Feature.ESCAPE_NON_ASCII, true);