Posting chinese letters to a servlet

[Crouchinho]

I have a html form which I use to send text info to a servlet, but when it
receives this text in a language such as chinese (cut and pasted from a
chinese site) the servlet can't recogise it and see's only ?'s or character
number 65533. How do I go about getting the servlet to get this info back
into chinese (or whatever other multibyte encoding) especially when it is
unknown exactly what was the posted language?

 

[John O'Conner]

I have a html form which I use to send text info to a servlet, but when it
receives this text in a language such as chinese (cut and pasted from a
chinese site) the servlet can't recogise it and see's only ?'s or character
number 65533. How do I go about getting the servlet to get this info back
into chinese (or whatever other multibyte encoding) especially when it is
unknown exactly what was the posted language?

Does this help at all:
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/HTTPCharset/

You should concentrate on a few areas to find the problem:
* the charset of the HTML form and page
* the charset used in your servlet to convert form parameters and
incoming data
* the db charset

 

[Crouchinho]

Does this help at all:
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Intl/HTTPCharset/

You should concentrate on a few areas to find the problem:
* the charset of the HTML form and page
* the charset used in your servlet to convert form parameters and
incoming data
* the db charset

cheers for the reply. I've fixed it - it turns out i was encoding it twice
on the servlet