Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.

Question

Hi All
I have to read a xml file from a given URL, which consists some french characters in it. I am getting
IOException :Invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence Exception.
The code i am using is.
SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
Document doc = builder.build(new URL(url));
Thanks in Advance
Amit Srivastava

Answer 1

The original XML may have been coded in UTF-16, but then you have this code:xml.trim().getBytes()which says
"Take that XML string and convert it to bytes, using my system's default encoding."
The parser then attempts to parse those bytes, which are encoded in ISO-8859-1 or windows-1252 or some such. Since you didn't declare this fact in the XML's header, the parser assumes the bytes are encoded in UTF-8. When it comes to a sequence of bytes in the code that aren't valid UTF-8 encodings of anything then it complains.
If you really have to convert the input to bytes then try this:xml.trim().getBytes("UTF-8")