How to encode bytes for correctly displaying Russian letters?

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I have a server, that sends some strings contains Russian letters, and I need to display received info correctly. What to write after:

byte [] b = received_data.toString().getBytes();

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Please, help.

Posted 7-Aug-10 3:37am

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E.F. Nijboer · Answer 1 · 2010-08-08T23:18:00

You should use the correct encoding to get the text in the correct form. You can't simply take the raw bytes and display them without encoding them first...

String unicode = new String(bytes, "Cp866");

Have a look at the supported encoding:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/intl/encoding.doc.html[^]

Good luck!