Special Characters in JSP

[sgbender]

Hi,

I am kind of new to JSP. I am having trouble outputing something:

<%=request.getParameter("UserName")%>

now if UserName has special Characters (i.e &hearts; ) it does not get outputed corectly. that code above should display the heart symbol, but instead I get something like this: âÂ...

is there some kind of converstion function I can use?

Thanks.

 

[prosper]

I would say if you input a heart symbol by "copy and paste" in
Windows, you may have a chance to copy excess invisible character, so the result is not the heart.

If you let user to use mouse to click on a heart symbol to include a heart symbol in his name(your html page add &hearts; to the user name), it can prevent copying excess invisible character.

Let user input the text "&hearts;" indirectly or saving "&hearts;" into database is better than allowing user to type control code.

 

[prosper]

To conclude, if you really want to accept the heart symbol. It
is better to make user input html code like "&hearts;" instead of inputting a special character by copy and paste.

 

[MoreFeo]

Try changing the charset/encoding.