How to handle special chars in parameter values?

Question

I\'ve some issues with my Java Servlet if it\'s called with special chars (like Æ, Ø og Å) in the GET-parameters: http://localhost:8080/WebService/MyService?test=Øs

Answer 1

you should be percent encoding special characters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding). In your example above, the "slashed O" (Ø) has the UTF-8 code 0xd8, so your URL would properly be written:

http://localhost:8080/WebService/MyService?test=%d8st.

Which should result in

Øst.

being printed to the console, from your servlet code above.