Problem in reading special characters � Microsoft symbols.

Hi All,
I have a text field where user can enter some string and search. Unusually/unfortunately users can copy/paste text from ms-word file and search for that entry in the database. Here they can even copy ms-word special symbols such as ellipsis (�), em dash(�), en dash(�). Since database has such (special character) entries we cannot restrict them from doing this (after all that is the requirement).
Now the problem is when I read the text value in servlet/jsp I find that those special characters are replaced by question marks(?). Because of this database return �no rows found� though there are entries.
What I have observed is when I read the ASCII value � (int)char I am able to get proper value. Using that I am having if else block to replace the question marks with proper symbols. But is there a direct way to do this? I even tried converting the string to another character set type string. But no luck.
(Also when I print the text value to a JSP, I can see proper vales through Internet Browser.)
Below is the sample program(read_n_print.jsp), sysout prints question marks in console, but JSP/HTML shows proper value in browser.
<html>
<%
     String value = request.getParameter("special_text");
     System.out.println("value " + value);
     if(value != null){
          byte[] bytes= value.getBytes();
          try {
               String output = new String(bytes,"ISO-8859-1");
               System.out.println("output " + output);
          } catch (Exception e) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e.printStackTrace();
%>
<head>
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="./read_n_print.jsp">
<input type="text" name="special_text" value=""> <input type="submit" value="Go" > <br>
<font size="8">Value entered is <%= value %></font>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Hi DrClap,
Thanks for your reply.
That article was helpful in understanding character conversions. And it works fine for JSPs.
But when I tried to apply the same in JSF it does not work. May be this is not the right forum to dicuss JSF related things. But if you know how pageEncoding and contentType can be mentioned in JSF. I am using myfaces and I have tried <h:form id="SearchForm" acceptCharset="UTF-8" accept="text/html;charset=UTF-8">. Didnt work....

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