> But i can't figure out how to detect its presence within a parameter > from the http request. I have tried to compare the caracters with > '\u20AC' but it goes thru. I have tried to use the > java.lang.Character.getNumericValue method but the euro has no numeric > value.
parameter on a URL are encoded using the encoding of the page containing the URL. on Windows the euro wll be encoded as 0x80 (Windows 1252) or UTF-8 (3 bytes - not sure what the correct value is) it will almost never show as '\u20AC' christian
