Unicode Arabic to \uXXXX

[Deepan Devadasan]

Hi..

How can i convert Unicode Arabic strings to \uAD04 format...

I need this to do a search in the Oracle DB that has Arabic data...

search string is also entered as Arabic characters...

Thanks in advance

[Paul Sturrock]

Java supports Unicode. Oracle supports Unicode. Why would you need to use the Unicode value at all?

[Deepan Devadasan]

Meaning...I can directly do the transferring in and out ?

[Paul Clapham]

I don't see why a straight Unicode solution shouldn't work. I am surprised you didn't try that first. And I don't see why Oracle's database would interpret Java Unicode escape sequences in the same way the Java compiler would; but I don't know Oracle and stranger things have been done.

[Deepan Devadasan]

Hi...

Answer found out...

UTF-8 can be used straight away...

But there is a trick... request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

Thanks to Java

[Rahul Bhattacharjee]

Originally posted by Theepan Thevathasan:
Hi...

Answer found out...

UTF-8 can be used straight away...

But there is a trick... request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

Thanks to Java

What happens if the client has already set Character Encoding header to some encoding other that utf-8 ?

Even the serlvet specification says that if request.getCharacterEncoding() is null then the client is using Latin-1 code page as charset.

[Ulf Dittmer]

What happens if the client has already set Character Encoding header to some encoding other that utf-8 ?

The encoding would only be something else if the page sent to the browser before wasn't UTF-8, so I don't think this would be a problem.

[Rahul Bhattacharjee]

Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:


The encoding would only be something else if the page sent to the browser before wasn't UTF-8, so I don't think this would be a problem.

Is this correct to say that if the server sends a resposne with UTF-8 then then the successive requests from the client would also use UTF-8 as character set.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Is this correct to say that if the server sends a resposne with UTF-8 then then the successive requests from the client would also use UTF-8 as character set.

Not successive requests in general, but requests (links and/or forms) activated from that particular web page.