Problems reading an html page encoded in UTF-8

Question

I'm trying this code with eclipse:
public class TestBooking {
      * @param args
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
          URL url;
          String url_string="http://www.booking.com/searchresults.html?checkin_monthday=21;checkin_year_month=2007-8;checkout_monthday=22;checkout_year_month=2007-8;class_interval=1;offset=0;si=ai%2Cco%2Cci%2Cre;ss_all=0;city=-126693";
          url = new URL(url_string);
          URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
          HttpURLConnection httpConnection =(httpURLConnection)connection;
          InputStream input=connection.getInputStream();
          BufferedReader prova=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(input));
          String str;
          while ((str=prova.readLine())!=null)
               System.out.println(str);
}And I get in the console a strange set of charachers:
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="el" href="/searchresults.el.html?sid=f190f46ada5404fc896b33035b20d50d;checkin_monthday=21;checkin_year_month=2007-8;checkout_monthday=22;checkout_year_month=2007-8;city=-126693;class_interval=1;offset=0;si=ai%2Cco%2Cci%2Cre" title="������������" />
instead of the correct:
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="el" href="/searchresults.el.html?sid=f190f46ada5404fc896b33035b20d50d;checkin_monthday=21;checkin_year_month=2007-8;checkout_monthday=22;checkout_year_month=2007-8;city=-126693;class_interval=1;offset=0;si=ai%2Cco%2Cci%2Cre" title="&#917;&#955;&#955;&#940;&#948;&#945;" />
How can I fix the problem to read the input correctly?
Thanks for help.

Answer 1

No conversion is needed, just specify the encoding when you create your InputStreamReader. But you can't expect text in all those different scripts to display correctly in your console. Even if the console is configured to use an encoding like UTF-8 that can handle all the characters, it won't be using a font with all the appropriate glyphs. But, like you said, it doesn't matter if you can't display all of the page's source code correctly. All you need is to be able to read it, which means using the correct encoding.