In his book "Java Servlet Programming" (chapter 12 about i18n),
Jason Hunter explains how a servlet gets a field value from a form
and how to convert the value when the charset is exotic.
1 String text = req.getParameter("text");
2 BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
3 new InputStreamReader(new StringBufferInputStream(text), charset));
4 text = reader.readLine();
Jason says the text String in line 1 gets the text as is. But although
it is stored in a String object, it is not a true String?!
As far as I know, java String objects are Unicode encoded, so my question is:
what do you get with a request.getParameter("field") ?
- a true java String translated by the servlet engine from a particular
charset to Unicode
- a strange java String still encoded in the charset of the HTML page
Thank you for your answer,
guillaume ORIOL
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