JSP - How to Truncate or replace non-english inputs ?

Hi,
I have a JSP form in which users needs to input certain values and those values get stored in our database. Now my concern is that many a times users from different part of geographies also input non-english values which comes as weired characters and gets stored in my database.
I do not want non english stuffs to be stored in my database.
What I want is that if user enters any NON-ENGLISH character then either it should get truncated or it should get replaced with its nearest matching english character.
How can I achieve this ?
Awaiting Help !
Thanks

Hey guyz..Iam awaiting ur response......is it something that not achievable....if thats so then please suggest me some way out

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