ParseException only on Galaxy Nexus

Question

I tested my app on 5 various phones and this exception occurs only on Samsung Galaxy Nexus:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: "Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:02:43 +0100" (at offset 0)

My input string:

<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:02:43 +0100</pubDate>

My code:

private String getString(Element item, String tag) {

    Element e = (Element) item.getElementsByTagName(tag).item(0);
    return e.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
}

SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss ZZZZ");
String tmpDate = getString(item, "pubDate");
Date pubDate = new Date(System.currentTimeMillis());
pubDate = sdf.parse(tmpDate);

Is this a problem of Android 4.0 or I made some mistake?

In addition I have a problem with my national signs. I have xml in UTF-8, and I want to display it in WebView. I have UTF-8 encoded html file and it works perfect on all devices except Galaxy Nexus - it display some strange characters instead of my national signs.

Do you have any ideas?

Answer 1

I would bet that the Nexus has a different locale set by default. Try using the

SimpleDateFormat(String pattern, Locale locale) 

variant of the constructor to explicitly set the locale you expect in your date string.