Hey guys! Is there a better way to receive a UTF-8...

# ktor

[ByteZ]

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).

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Could you please post an example of the response body?

[ByteZ]

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

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

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.

[ByteZ]

The issue seems pretty stale. Maybe adding a function like call.receiveText(charset: Charset) would be easier?

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

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.

[ByteZ]

Thanks for the quick fix!