How set credentialsencoding with apache android httpclient

I have been using the build-in android httpclient and Springs Android Resttemplate (1.0.0.M4) in my Android app. I'm authenticating with Basic Auth.

I have a couple of things i need to set when making requests, most importantly credentials charset. Default is US-Ascii and nordic characters doesn't work unless i set it to ISO-8859.

I did that using the HttpClient:

    HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
    Credentials defaultcreds = new UsernamePasswordCredentials(msisdn, password);
    httpClient.getState().setCredentials(new AuthScope(AuthScope.ANY_HOST, AuthScope.ANY_PORT, AuthScope.ANY_REALM), defaultcreds);
    httpClient.getParams().setSoTimeout(prefs.getServerTimeout());
    httpClient.getParams().setConnectionManagerTimeout(3000);
    httpClient.getParams().setContentCharset("UTF-8");
    httpClient.getParams().setCredentialCharset("ISO-8859-1", )

I'm now trying to upgrade my libraries, and also get rid of the built-in httpclient dependency.

SO, i'm upgrading to resttemplate 2.0, and have imported apache's httpclient-android. I'm using Maven, so my dependencies are:

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.android</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-android-rest-template</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.0.M3</version>
        <!--version>1.0.0.M4</version-->
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
        <artifactId>httpclient-android</artifactId>
        <version>4.3.5.1</version>
    </dependency>

I have a hard time making this work as i want...

1. Neither of the jars above have a HttpClient class anywhere. Since the Android one is deprecated, i don't want to rely on that one.

2. According to the docs, Basic Auth should be performed as per the below code. But i cannot find anywhere to set the credentials charset!

   HttpAuthentication authHeader = new HttpBasicAuthentication(msisdn, password); HttpHeaders requestHeaders = new HttpHeaders(); requestHeaders.setAuthorization(authHeader); HttpEntity requestEntity = new HttpEntity(requestHeaders);

It would be great if someone could help me out.