Decode Search UTF-8 Keywords

[Praveen Teegala]

Hi All,

http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9+%E9%9B%BB%E8%A9%B1%E5%B8%B3+&ie=UTF-8&hl=ja&btnG=Google+%E6%A4%9C%E7%B4%A2&lr=

The above is search url on google.co.jp for Japanese words (ファイナンス 電話帳 ).

The problem is,
How do I decode the Japanese keywords from the above URL.

Any help, is highly appreciated.

Thanks in　Advance.
Praveen.

[Roman Tomachinsky]

Hi All!

Just encountered the same problem.

I try to decode URL with Japanese search string and can't get "stable" result - for some Japanese characters it's fine but for others it's not OK.
For example, this Japanese string: 貴方のキャリアを最大限に活かし after decoding has the following look: 貴方�?�キャリアを最大�?�?�活�?��?�. As you can see, some characters are decoded fine.

I decode it using the following construct:

String correctedUrl = new String(url.getBytes(), "UTF-8");

Application server - Weblogic 8, but I also tried on Weblogic 9.2 (JDK 1.5) - got the same result.

May be you know how to fix this?
Thanks a lot!

[Roman Tomachinsky]

Hi All,

I've solved this problem myself. The problem was in URL encoding for the sake of SEO optimisation. So request.getQueryString() works not the same as request.getRequestURL().

Cheers