mmmrrr
UTF-8 Solr answer yields charlist
Currently I have a problem with an answer I’m getting from my Solr server.
When I request it directly from JavaScript or with Postman/Insomnia I get an UTF-8 document that displays my umlauts correctly. E. g. one value contains the german word Tür which will be rendered as is.
When I make the request from Elixir I’ll get a charlist as the documents body. This is then parsed as JSON and theoretically working as expected, except that now the Tür gets rendered as Tür.
What am I doing wrong here? I already tried converting it to string, which only yields a bitstring.
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joaoevangelista
I have checked the Hui library and it defaults to httpc as http client, but since you mentioned HTTPoison I assume you have configured it as the http client, otherwise since httpc is erlang it could be causing the encoding problem, and the behaviour of returning a charlist as the response.
From their documentation you can configure like:
config :hui, :default
http_client: Hui.Http.Httpoison
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mmmrrr
The problem is indeed httpc. Httpoison had no effect when I first tried it, because the module was missing and it silently failed.
That’s why I assumed a deeper issue… Thanks for the pointer! 
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