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Just to set the scene on this post, a couple of definitions and links, before I present a solution to a very annoying problem when dealing with "umlauts":
>HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State) is a constraint of the REST application architecture. A hypermedia-driven site provides information to navigate the site's REST interfaces dynamically by including hypermedia links with the responses. >HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State) is a constraint of the REST application architecture. A hypermedia-driven site provides information to navigate the site's REST interfaces dynamically by including hypermedia links with the responses.
[Understanding HATEOAS - Spring](https://spring.io/understanding/HATEOAS) [Understanding HATEOAS - Spring](https://spring.io/understanding/HATEOAS)
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### "Good old JAVA" solves any problem ### "Good old JAVA" solves any problem
Create a String object from the outcome of this method with the right encoding (UTF-8), i.e. my code looks like this Create a String object from the outcome of this method with the right encoding (UTF-8), i.e. my code looks like this
```java ```java
halRepresentationUTF8 = new String(halRepresentation.toString(RepresentationFactory.HAL_JSON).getBytes(), "UTF-8") halRepresentationUTF8 = new String(halRepresentation.toString(RepresentationFactory.HAL_JSON).getBytes(), "UTF-8")
``` ```
And this does the trick ;)... the string, `halRepresentationUTF8` is properly UTF-8 encoded. And this does the trick ;)... the string, `halRepresentationUTF8` is properly UTF-8 encoded.
In fact this is a simple way to make sure the outcome (`HAL_JSON` representation), which is basically a string, will be properly encoded as UTF-8. In fact this is a simple way to make sure the outcome (`HAL_JSON` representation), which is basically a string, will be properly encoded as UTF-8.