title: org.json character encoding/decoding issue
body: <p>So I have a webservice call that is giving me back a JSON string. I've requested that the response send be back the content in UTF-8 encoding. When I inspect the value returned everything looks good. It's when I create a new JSONObject and pass the JSON text into the constructor that things start to cause problems.</p>
  
  <p>Specifically: 
  The webservice returns with an EM DASH (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2014/index.htm) character in the response - "format":"On Demand Event—All Sessions"</p>
  
  <p>After the JSONObject receives the string it converts this character into the java representation of this character - "format":"On Demand Event\u2014All Sessions"</p>
  
  <p>I am using the org.json library to do my bidding and am considering moving to a different implementation if necessary. Here is what I've got running the show:</p>
  
  <pre><code>HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
  GetMethod getDownloads = new GetMethod("http://localhost:8080/ecommerce-ws/service/account/downloads");
  
  getDownloads.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.HTTP_CONTENT_CHARSET, "UTF-8");
  getDownloads.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
  
  client.executeMethod(getDownloads);
  
  String httpResponse = getDownloads.getResponseBodyAsString();
  
  JSONObject downloadsJSON = new JSONObject(httpResponse);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there some way that I can set the character encoding on the JSONObject when it parses the string? I've done quite a bit of looking around and have found very little that helps.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance for your assistance.</p>