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Passing cent symbol from jsp to servlet -- Problem

 
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I am working on three standalone tomcat servers --
First on win2000 , the version of tomact is /4.1.18. I am trying to pass cent ( � ) alt+0162 from jsp to servlet but it doesnot pass the cent symbol , it pass some weired symbol which is �. Same application on sun solris , the version of tomact is /4.0.4.,it passes ? instead of cent symbol. Same application on Linux , the version of tomact is /4.0.4.it passes the cent symbol correctly. IS THERE ANY REASON WHY IT IS NOT PASSING THE EXACT RESULT IN THE FIRST AnD SECOND CASE.
Servlet is -- String sProm = req.getParameter("PromotionText");
JSP is --- Promotion Text: <TEXTAREA NAME="PromotionText" ROWS="2" COLS="30" WRAP="VIRTUAL"></TEXTAREA>

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Hi Mehta,
are you encoding the url as (I guess) you are passing the symbol through the URL.
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Nope ! I am not encoding anything and i am not passing through hidden field also.
I am just reteriving the value throught getParameter("NameofField").

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are you encoding the url as (I guess) you are passing the symbol through the URL.


Actually from the orginal post (which I will admit is not very clear), I assumed that the offending character was being passed as part of the text area.
If this is the case, no encoding should be necessary since that will happen as part of the form submission. (I'm assuming that there is no funky enctype specified on the form?)
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Nope !
I didnot specify any encryption of anykind . the text area is in form post method.
is jsp .
< form name ="" method="post" >
<textarea name="promtext"> </textarea>
getparameter (promtext) in servlet.
this is very simple form .

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This is just a guess, but is it possible that the Java default Locale is different on each of the three platforms that you tested? Someting like this would cause a given unicode character to display differently on different systems.
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Hi,
just an attempt...define the charset for your
html..
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
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nope !
it didnot work

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Any other idea will be highly appreciated.
thanks
Saryu

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Oooh,
mounika mentioned URLEncoder yet. Try sending your ¢ encoded with it ( even you have POST-method ):
java.net.URLEncoder.encode( ¢String )
and decode with:
java.net.URLEncoder.decode( ¢String )
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Forgot something:
since jdk1.4 you can specify the charset:

URLEncoder.encode( string, "UTF-8" )
or just use &cent;
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Hi
how do i do this.
<TR>
<TD COLSPAN=4><TEXTAREA NAME="PromotionText" ROWS="3" COLS="40" WRAP="VIRTUAL"></TEXTAREA></TD>
</TR>
above is the text area in my jsp do I have to write the textarea value= java.lang.String encodeURL(theurlvalue) ?
how do I know what value entered in text area since it is in html and I need that string value to be in java to pass into method.
The value of the texarea will be like this.
"Testing the cent symbol � .Please share your creative ideas to solve this."

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Code snippet will be higly appreciated.

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Hi,
my idea was:
if it is encoded in POST automatically...
...maybe URLDecoder.decode() will display your ¢

This one encodes the textfiled-value with JavaScript before submit.
If this also doesn't work i tend to Marks Opinion

good night
p.s.: if you have don't have jdk1.4 use it without ,"UTF-8"
good night
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I managed to get the cent symbol in the servlet from jsp .NOW NEW PROBLEM !!
I am using postgres as database.
When I am updating the databse
update set promotiontext=”sss � cent symbol insert” from the sql it is inserting cent symbol the database but the same query through my application ( I have debugger on to view query) inserts ? instead of cent symbol .the debugger shows me the same query when my applciaiton runs .

Any idea ??

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I am also running into this problem, but it is a lot bigger concern for me, since it happens... for file transfers. I uploaded a test file from the jsp to the servlet, and I found that the following bytes get replaced by '?':
0x81
0x8D
0x8F
0x90
0x9D
Just informational for now, I will try the fixes posted here and see if that solves the problem.
 
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