Android Build class string encoding

Question

I am writing an app where I want to get the model type of the device and relay it to my server. I am currently doing this in this way:

try{
    String path = URLEncoder.encode(Build.MODEL, "utf-8");
} catch (UnsupportedEncodeingException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(baseUrl + "/" + path);

My question is if the Build.MODEL string that is returned will always be UTF-8 encoded?

Does anyone know?

Thanks

All strings in Java are UTF-16 encoded in memory. If you request encode() to encode such a string as UTF-8, the output will be UTF-8 encoded, where appropriate byte octets are formatted in %HH syntax. — Remy Lebeau
– Remy Lebeau, Commented Oct 3, 2014 at 0:23

ashoke · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-03 03:05:11Z

1

Java strings (UTF-16) can be encoded as UTF-8, see this method in String class, it clearly mentions all strings can be encoded as UTF-8.

So in your code above, path String is guaranteed to always come out as UTF-8 encoded.

edited Oct 3, 2014 at 3:05

answered Oct 3, 2014 at 2:49

ashoke

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