UTF-8 symbols and spaces in image URL

[nostra13]

Image can't be loaded if image URL contains UTF-8 locale-specific symbols (e.g. 'ф', 'à', 'ß')

[yevon]

The same if it contains spaces!

It seems that it can be solved by using urlEncoder.

May be this helps
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1828641/how-to-parse-a-uri-like-this-in-java

[nostra13]

I tried to found nice solution for this bug but couldn't do it. UrlEncoder didn't help me.

[yevon]

I have also seen this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3286067/url-encoding-in-android

String urlStr = "http://abc.dev.domain.com/0007AC/ads/800x480 15sec h.264.mp4";
URL url = new URL(urlStr);
URI uri = new URI(url.getProtocol(), url.getUserInfo(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), url.getPath(), url.getQuery(), url.getRef());
url = uri.toURL();

I haven't tried it, i will try when I have time

[crush3r]

yevons code works fine. Please, add this to jar library.

[nostra13]

May be it fixes problem for spaces, but it doesn't fix "UTF-8 symbols problem".

[crush3r]

It also fixes a problem with '[' ']'

[yevon]

I have made some tests, and I don't know the reason of using Uri in all the code. For knowing the procol isn't enough with String.startsWith("/") -> file , String.startsWith("http") , String.startsWith("content") etc? Without using Uri, all this problems dissappear.

Something like that:

private InputStream getInputStream(String url) {
InputStream stream = null;
URL internetUrl;

    if (url.startsWith(PROTOCOL_FILE)) {
        try {
            stream = new FileInputStream(url);
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        }
    } else if (url.startsWith(PROTOCOL_CONTENT)) {
        try {
            stream = resolver.openInputStream(Uri.parse(url));
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        }
    } else if (url.startsWith(PROTOCOL_HTTP) || url.startsWith(PROTOCOL_HTTPS) || url.startsWith(PROTOCOL_FTP)) {
        try {
            internetUrl = new URL(url);
            stream = internetUrl.openStream();
        } catch (MalformedURLException e1) {
            e1.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    return stream;

}