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HttpUriRequest and HttpPut, sending a payload String with multilingual characters.
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A Java String doesn't have an encoding but it can easily be forced into UTF-16 on conversions. ALWAYS specify UTF-8 when creating a new StringEntity from String!

Add payload to HttpPut
HttpPut hp = (HttpPut) this.request;
hp.setEntity(new StringEntity(yourStringPayload, "UTF-8"));
hp.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
// ... then execute
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