Hey guys! Is there a better way to receive a UTF-8 String from a post request than

call.receive<ByteArray>().toString(Charsets.UTF_8)

? I'm aware that

call.receiveText()

exists but we had some encoding issues after receiving a request containing a "Fullwidth Colon" (U+FF1A).

Could you please post an example of the response body?

Sure! Here you go: https://pastebin.com/XtAzexgR

The problem is that since a client doesn't specify an encoding in the

Content-Type

header, the assumed content encoding is

Charsets.ISO_8859_1

. Here is the issue about it https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTOR-789.

The issue seems pretty stale. Maybe adding a function like

call.receiveText(charset: Charset)

would be easier?

The fix was made today and will be available in Ktor 2.0.0. Having a

charset

parameter is a good option but the implementation isn't going be easy.

Thanks for the quick fix!