Re: Special Characters

[R.Muthukumar]

Hi Lee,
Instead of using the URLEncoder and URLDecoder, use the asp equivalent of
htmlEncode method. Just call this method before u insert the values into
Oracle.
public static String htmlEncode(String text) {
   if (text == null) {
    return "";
   }

   StringBuffer results = null;
   char[] orig = null;
   int beg = 0, len = text.length();
   for (int i = 0; i < len; ++i){
    char c = text.charAt(i);
    switch (c){
     case 0:
     case '&':
     case '<':
     case '>':
     case '"':
     if (results == null){
      orig = text.toCharArray();
      results = new StringBuffer(len+10);
     }
     if (i > beg) {
      results.append(orig, beg, i-beg);
     }
     beg = i + 1;
     switch (c){
      default: // case 0:
      continue;
      case '&':
      results.append("&amp;");
      break;
      case '<':
      results.append("&lt;");
      break;
      case '>':
      results.append("&gt;");
      break;
      case '"':
      results.append("&quot;");
      break;
     }
    break;
   }
  }
  if (results == null)
  return text;
  results.append(orig, beg, len-beg);
  return results.toString();
 }
Rgds
Muthu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:24 PM
Subject: Special Characters


> Hi
>
> I am testing my application by trying it out with special characters. I
> have entered űŰ (with squiggly on top for those readers that don't see
them)
> in a field in the form. This gets translated into &#369;&#368; when sent
to
> the server. However, when I try to decode this back to it original form (
> java.net.URLDecoder.decode(req.getParameter("username")) ), it stays the
> same and therefore &#369;&#368; gets entered into the database (Oracle).
>
> Is this correct when using these characters or am I missing something ??
>
> Cheers
>
> Lee
>
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