I'm developing a program that sends tweets. I have this piece of code: StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("Recomendo "); sb.append(lblName.getText()); sb.append(" no canal "+lblCanal.getText());
sb.append(" no dia "+date[2]+"/"+date[1]+"/"+date[0]); sb.append(" às "+time[0]+"h"+time[1]); byte[] defaultStrBytes = sb.toString().getBytes("ISO-8859-1"); String encodedString = new String(defaultStrBytes, "UTF-8"); But When I send it to tweet I get the "?" symbol or other strage characters because of the accents like "à" . I've also tried with only String encodedString = new String(sb.toString().getBytes(), "UTF-8"); //also tried with ISO-8859-1 Thank you :)