android - How to create unicode characters from JsonObject for address info? -

i'm using this code address info , working fine, casting non english characters not correct.

how fix unicode problem??

 public jsonobject getlocationinfo() {     //http request     httpget httpget = new httpget("http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng="+lat+","+lng+"&sensor=true");     httpclient client = new defaulthttpclient();     httpresponse response;     stringbuilder stringbuilder = new stringbuilder();      try {         response = client.execute(httpget);         httpentity entity = response.getentity();         inputstream stream = entity.getcontent();         int b;         while ((b = stream.read()) != -1) {//even character.tochars(b) not working             stringbuilder.append((char) b);         }     } catch (clientprotocolexception e) {         } catch (ioexception e) {     }             //create json string return.     jsonobject jsonobject = new jsonobject();     try {         jsonobject = new jsonobject(stringbuilder.tostring());     } catch (jsonexception e) {         e.printstacktrace();     }     return jsonobject; } 

call function follows complete address:

jsonobject ret = getlocationinfo(); //get json returned api call jsonobject location;  string location_string;   //parse value corresponding `formatted_address` key.    try {   location = ret.getjsonarray("results").getjsonobject(0);   location_string = location.getstring("formatted_address");   log.d("test", "formattted address:" + location_string);   } catch (jsonexception e1) {   e1.printstacktrace();   } 

instead of reading byte wise stringbuilder, use

bytearrayoutputstream baos; ...  string jsontext = new string(baos.tobytearray(), standardcharsets.utf_8); 

in concreto:

bytearrayoutputstream baos = new bytearrayoutputstream();  try {     response = client.execute(httpget);     httpentity entity = response.getentity();     inputstream stream = entity.getcontent();     byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];     int nread;     while ((nread = stream.read(buffer)) > 0) {         baos.write(buffer, 0, nread);                  } } catch (clientprotocolexception | ioexception e) { } //create json string return. jsonobject jsonobject = new jsonobject(); try {     string jsontext = new string(baos.tobytearray(), standardcharsets.utf_8);     jsonobject = new jsonobject(jsontext); 

the above uses buffer too; there exists bufferedinputstream too.