Parsing XML (encoding ISO-8859-1) with Retrofit2 and SimpleXmlConverter doesn't show correct characters

We (@deen13 and myself) are using the SimpleXmlConverter and Retrofit in our project like this:

private final MealplanService service = new Retrofit.Builder()
            .baseUrl("IP-ADDRESS")
            .addConverterFactory(SimpleXmlConverterFactory.create())
            .build()
            .create(MealplanService.class);

    @Override
    public void fetch(DownloadFinished downloadFinished) {
        Call<Mealplan> call = service.getMealplan();

        call.enqueue(new Callback<Mealplan>() {
            // handling the response with response.body()
        });
    }

The response from the server is ISO-8859-1 encoded (confirmed by sniffing the http traffic and response in the browser) but is interpreted as UTF-8 as all “ä, ö, ü” characters are displayed as “�, �, �”.

We’ve tried using an interceptor, cloning the SimpleXmlConverter class and manually setting the encoding to ISO-8859-1 (where we found out that the Response object is already messed up) and setting the header parameters manually but nothing seems to work.

[JakeWharton]

Sounds like a win-win.

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 3:10 AM Florian [e-mail] wrote:

This IS a bug, the Response is not parsed correctly by your library. Strange that once we converted to Volley, everything worked just fine huh?

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