Getting chinese charaters from Form using request.getParameter()

Question

Hi,
I want my JSPs to be unicode enabled. In HTML forms user can enter any characters like japnese, chinese etc. But on the server side if user enters any such characters i am getting decimal equivalent of that character in the form of &#{decimal equivalent}; in the request.egetParameter() method.
For ex if I enter �覢覣觇觉訅 then i get "╢&# 35234;&# 35235;&# 35271;&# 35273;&# 35333;" in request.getPrameter().
I have given the charset "UTF-8" in the header of my JSPs.
I tried to decode it with URLDecoder but it fails then i tried to read these parameters using reader but it also fails, then
String para = request.getParameter("para"); // where para is name of received parameter
byte[] bytes = para.getBytes();
para = new String(bytes, "UTF-8");
This also fails.
Can anyone please tell me how to handel this problem?
Thanx
-Vaijayanti

Answer 1

Hi,
I have tried this in my jsp and it works for me, assuming that the form is submitted with encoding UTF-8 :
Submitting JSP :
<form action="test.jsp">
<input type="text" name="a">
</form>
This is test.jsp :
<%
String a = new String (request.getParameter ("a").getBytes (), "UTF-8");
%>
Passed Parameter = <%=a%>
Hope that helps
Thanks
Amit