[android-developers] UTF-8 encoding and decoding

2012-06-14 Thread Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso
Hi, I am implementing an standalone client/server protocol to make one of my games online capable. One of the problems I have found is that some strings passwed between client and server may have characters that must be encoded on UTF-8 (like spanish ñ for example). The first thing I though was

Re: [android-developers] UTF-8 encoding and decoding

2012-06-14 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
On the Android side, at the most basic level, you can use: byte[] b = String.getBytes(utf-8) String s = new String(b, utf-8) to convert back and forth. UTF-8 encoding is designed in such a way that it won't interfere with regular ASCII characters, including special ones that may have meaning