encoding

[sgehrman]

Trying to use deepl.com, can't find any answers online.

I translate to japanese and get some weird encoding back. Can't figure out how to fix, there is not documentation on this. your examples are useless.

Why is your api so weird? Why not a simple post with json? x-www-form-urlencoded? Is this 1998?

For such a simple api, it's incredibly difficult to use.

[sgehrman]

I figured it out.

I'm using Dart.

I normally can get the post response with: response.body
but I had to use: utf8.decode(res.bodyBytes)

Not sure why this doesn't "just work"

[daniel-jones-deepl]

Hi @sgehrman, I am sorry that I am so late responding to this issue. Thanks for reporting the problems.

We have it on our roadmap to also support JSON in requests to our API.

I looked into the Dart issue a little, it seems to be a known problem in the Dart http library. This library does not assume utf8 charset for application/json type responses, rather latin1 instead. This problem is triggered because our API responses have Content-Type application/json but lack the explicit ; charset=utf8. We'll add this in future to avoid this problem.