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  • This was very comprehensive. Thanks. I had a question - Lets say twitter stream, you would not know the encoding upfront. How would you handle that ? Commented Jun 28, 2013 at 16:34
  • @karthikr: I find it hard to believe that Twitter doesn't provide the encoding. Commented Jun 28, 2013 at 20:59