Re: "Invalid UTF-8 start byte 0xbf" when changing universes

Thanks, Anthony.

I did resolve it, with a similar solution.

I found that although I was transforming the XML to a String with the proper UTF-8 encoding, my String was later being decoded when it was being written to the output stream of the URLConnection. So now I just transform the encoded node directly to the OutputStream:

requestXML.toOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());

public void toOutputStream(OutputStream os) 
throws XMLUtilityException
{    Transformer transformer;    try    {        transformer = XMLUtilities.transformerFactory.newTransformer();        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8");        transformer.transform(new DOMSource(node), new StreamResult(os));    }    catch (TransformerException e)    {        throw new XMLUtilityException("Unable to render XML.",e);    }
}

seems to be working.

Never had to worry about this stuff with REBean!