URL Encoding and UTF8

Hello Friends,
I have been working on this problem for some time now. I have a web page that has forms fields like first name, last name etc. and then posts the data back to a servlet that writes it into a file that is utf-8 encoded. The web page has charset specified as utf-8. I was assuming that data would be sent back in the url as utf-8. I entered some japanese data copied from a japanese web page. When I looked at the file into which the form data was written I saw that it wasn't even close to utf-8 or unicode encoding of the data I had posted. For eg. I entered a japanese character: '\u4F1A' which is utf-8 encoded as 'E4 BC 9A'. But the data written into the file is '25 45 34 25 42 43 25 39 41'. This is of course because the data is url encoded which is '%E4%BC%9A', since 45 is hex for E, 34 is hex for 4 and so on. Now the question is how is it that I proceed to get the right utf data back. I am using a jrun server. Is there something that I need to set here in order to get the right characters back.

The UTF-8 encoded sequence of bytes of the character '\u4F1A' is {-E4, -BC, -9A}, and the character '-' is (char)0x2d instead of (char)0x25. And I suppose 25 should be 2d.

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