Hi, I found what's wrong. The Dalvik VM doesn't handle unicode in xml
very well. Here's a bug report 
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2607

As I understand the last message in the bug tracker, they have
assigned it to be fixed to the next version of Android.

Regards,
Peter

On 7 Dec, 10:19, Peter Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
> I am writing a client on Android for a "corporate twitter" system. I
> have written the http-request/response handling in Java on windows
> first, and migrated the source to my Android project once I saw it
> work. No changes seemed to have to be done to the source, it compiled
> nicely.
>
> However, since our users are swedish we have a heavy use of umlauts in
> the "twitter" messages, and the messages received in the xml from the
> server becomes corrupted at the first umlaut. At first I thought it
> was something with the TextView widget, but it turned out I can hard
> code a swedish sentence and it is printed correctly in the TextView.
> None of this is problem in Java SE on windows, but the strings seems
> to be corrupted when read from the httpClient in Android.
>
> I collect the xml text this way:
>
> public myResponse handleResponse( HttpResponse response ) throws
> ClientProtocolException, IOException
>         {
>                 HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
>                 BufferedReader reader = null;
>                 StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
>                 String inputLine = null;
>                 YammerResponse messageResponse = null;
>
>                 if (entity != null)
>                 {
>                         reader = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader
> ( entity.getContent(), "UTF-8" ));
>
>                     while( (inputLine = reader.readLine()) != null )
>                     {
>                         buffer.append( inputLine );
>                     }
>
>                     messageResponse = new ResponseParser().parseString
> ( buffer.toString());
>                 }
>
>                 System.out.println( "Response parsed! ");
>
>                 return messageResponse;
>         }
>
> I would appreciate some help here!
>
> Regards,
> Peter

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