Polish characters are not retrived from request object

Question

Hi
I have a problem in passing POLISH character through request object.
I am calling a servlet from a jsp with a hyper link. when the link in jsp is clicked the following code will be executed
response.sendRedirect(response.encodeURL("http://hostname:8080/appName/abc.do?method=getReport&FirstName=Ko�tun&LastName=Pro�ciak"));
this code is passing two POLISH strings First Name & Last Name to the servlet.
In the servlet i am trying to retrieve the values of the parameters "FirstName" & "LastName".
Sring FN=request.getParameter("FirstName");
String LN=request.getParameter("LastName");
The variable FN & LN doesn't show the POLISH character in servlet.
I tried with the below option in JSP
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2" > (or)
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" >
(or)
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=ISO8859_2" %>
(or)
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8" %>
In Servlet i tried using
request.setCharacterEncoding("ISO-8859-2");
(or)
request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
Pl help me.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Don't do it then. Those characters are not allowed inside a URL and have to be encoded. You know, that %... stuff.