Re: Special Characters

[Albert Yip]

The "&#xxx;" coding you see is not related to URLDecoding actually I think.
That is UTF-8 encoding, which is the java default when handling special
characters.URLDecoder / URLEncoder do stuffs like changing spaces to "+" and
"/" to "%2F", which makes a string URL friendly.

Hope this helps.

Best,
Albert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 6:54 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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