URLDecoder.decode problem

[mahesh kapure]

Hello,

i am trying to decode the string which as escape char and it gives me error as "URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern - For input string: "u2""

here is string which i am trying to decode "ss%27sd%20ds%20sdsd%u2019sds%20dfsf%20". and the escape char which i am getting error is "%u2019".


thank you,
Mahesh

[Jesper de Jong]

As the error message says, the input string is not a valid URL encoded string. Where does the input string come from? It looks like something was done incorrectly in the encoding.

After the %, there should be hexadecimal digits. 'u' is not a valid hexadecimal digit, so it complains.

If you intended to encode the Unicode character U+2019, then the URL encoded version should have looked like this: %E2%80%99
(which is U+2019 in UTF-8 encoding, and then percent-escaped).