Native HTTP - Some UTF8 chars breaking response.data

Ionic Native
1

Hi all,

I am using native HTTP client (cordova-plugin-advanced-http) in my Ionic 3 project and I think I have found a problem with UTF8 chars on Android.
I am getting the data back from a POST call and the response is usually a JSON that I can parse with the normal JSON.parse function. Whenever there are some non-ascii chars inside (like à è ò ì ù) the json content is returned incorrectly as follows:
Actual data in the HTTP reponse:
{"activityResponse" :{"activityId":"2113000190","errorCode":"0002","errorDesc":"Guasto già chiuso"}}
Response.data from the native POST:
chiuso"}}

This problem seems to happen only on Android. The iOS side of the plugin is dealing with these chars just fine.
Unfortunately I have to use the native client for CORS issues and cannot switch back to the standard angular http client.

Anyone having a similar issue or ideas on how to solve it?
Thanks
Mat

2

in your request add headers with UTF-8 like this

 var headers = new Headers();
        headers.append('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=UTF-8');
        return this.http.post(this.url, body, { headers: headers }).map(res => res.json());
3

Thanks but that doesn’t seem to have any effect.
I tried both

        let headers = {
            'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
            'Accept-Charset': 'utf-8'
        };

and

        this.http.setHeader('*', 'Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8');
        this.http.setHeader('*', 'Accept-Charset', 'utf-8');

Same results also with “UTF-8” instead of “utf-8”

4

The JSON is badly coded, it is a backend problem.

“Guasto già chiuso” = “Guasto gi\u00E0 chiuso”

Check this URL: https://www.freeformatter.com/json-escape.html#ad-output

5

Thank you, I am running extra test and see if something can be changed on the backend side. I still cannot understand why this is not giving any problem on iOS…

6

Hi,
It is a requirement of the json specs that all data use a Unicode encoding. You need to follow the format specs to work fine in all platforms.

Good luck!

7

Problem solved with an extra Content-Type header in the response (“application/json;charset=utf-8”). Apparently the encoding was ok, but the native Java client is using ISO-8559 as a default when nothing else is specified in the HTTP headers.