Escaping special sequences in HTML

Question

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I am stuck and can't find the answer. In Java, I am forwarding a page and passing a string into the new Forward. The problem is that part of the string is �, and in HTML is keeps resolving the the registration symbol (circle with an R inside)
rtn = "https://www.mypage.com/page.do?accountNumber="+accountNum+"&registrationCode="+registrationCode;
return new Forward(rtn);I've tried using double quotes to escape it, but it still resolves to the registration code symbol
rtn = "https://www.mypage.com/page.do?accountNumber="+accountNum+"\\&registrationCode="+registrationCode;Any ideas how to escape � in a string to make it actually resolve to � in an jsp page?
thanks
Message was edited by:
drakester
Message was edited by:
drakester

Answer 1

I don't get what you're asking. Do you want the �to
appear in the page or not? You seem to be
contradicting yourself.I do not want � to appear, I want (&.reg) to
appear(but without the period). I am trying to pass
&.reg as an URL string but the &.registration keeps
resolving to &registration.Gotcha. I was even more confused until I quoted your reply. If the URLEncoder doesn't handle the problem, you could encode the '&' yourself: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp