Reading a UTF-8 Web encoded page - Wrong output

Question

Dear All,
I have used Java to fetch Greek web pages encoded in ISO-8859-7 without any problems. The HTML source along with the greek letters shows up to my console (Eclipse) just fine.
However now that i am trying to fetch a web page encoded in UTF-8 i get question marks in some characters. So far i had the best results by using the following code :
byte[]b=line.getBytes();
String newLine=new String(b,"UTF-8");
System.out.println(newLine);
The above outputs questionmarks for 2 specific Greek letters. I have tried everything yet no luck...can someone help ??

Answer 1

Dear All,
I have used Java to fetch Greek web pages encoded in
ISO-8859-7 without any problems. The HTML source
along with the greek letters shows up to my console
(Eclipse) just fine.
However now that i am trying to fetch a web page
encoded in UTF-8 i get question marks in some
characters. So far i had the best results by using
the following code :
byte[]b=line.getBytes();
String newLine=new String(b,"UTF-8");
System.out.println(newLine);
The above outputs questionmarks for 2 specific Greek
letters. I have tried everything yet no luck...can
someone help ??Remember that the Strings in java are always utf-8, its the byte arrays that have different encodings. When you do
byte[]b=line.getBytes();
you are translating it into a byte array with default encoding, which would be something to the affect of iso8859_1, hence you end up losing the greek characters.
Then you do
String newLine=new String(b,"UTF-8");
telling that create a String(which is always going to be utf8) from a byte array with encoding utf-8 while when you created the byte array it was iso8859-1 so there is no way you would get the right String