XML with special characters

[Kaizah]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to do the following:
- I have an XML document located at some place on the web
- I want to get the XMLs content (source) as it is on its location
- The XML file is utf8-encoded

I can do the above, except for that there is 1 odd thing I cannot seem to fix. I can get the XML's source and all that, but whenever it contains special characters such as ö or é, it gets malformed into something else consisting of two characters. I know this has to do with the fact that the XML file is UTF8 encoded and that I am probably reading it using ISO-encoding. However, I have been trying to get to reading it as UTF8, but I cannot succeed.
Anyone know how to do this?

My current code is:

public String retrieveSource(String link) {
        
        String htmlCode = "";
        Scanner reader;
        StringBuilder builder;
        try {
        
            URL url = new URL(link);
            reader = new Scanner(url.openStream( ) );
            builder = new StringBuilder( );
            
            while (reader.hasNext( ))
            
            builder.append(reader.nextLine( ) + "\n");
            
            htmlCode = builder.toString( );
        
        } catch (Exception e) {
        
        }
        
        return htmlCode;
    
    }

Thanks.

[Kaizah]

Never mind, simply modifying the line

reader = new Scanner(url.openStream( ) );

To

reader = new Scanner(url.openStream( ), "UTF-8" );

did the trick. :)