HTML labels are displayed with ascii characters?

Question

I have html file and it has some labels.when i usually get the values through request parameters appended to URL. when i display the values in an html they will be dispalyed with ASCII chars as below. am getting values with %20 from my URL itself. And am reading them in servlet and forward to some.jsp

Name=Hellow%20how%20are%20you

But i want out put as:

Name=Hello how are you

Do i need to do anything in my html to render the value without ASCII ?

Thanks!

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 17 '13 at 09:38

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Use unescape():

Name = unescape("Hellow%20how%20are%20you"); // = "Hellow how are you"

Example fiddle

answered Sep 17 '13 at 09:38

Rory McCrossan

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can i set any encoding in my servlet itself? while reading request parameters? – user755806 Sep 17 '13 at 09:40
Did you meen Java instead of javascript ? check this to unescape strings in java http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3537706/howto-unescape-a-java-string-literal-in-java – Charaf JRA Sep 17 '13 at 09:43
can i do as request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8"); in servlet? – user755806 Sep 17 '13 at 09:45

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '13 at 09:47

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I see that you have servlet here , so you talk about java not javascript i guess.

Any way In java you got StringEscapeUtils from Commons Lang to escape/unescape.

In Javascript you escape through encodeURIComponent, but I think the Commons component I gave to you will satisfy your needs.

answered Sep 17 '13 at 09:47

Charaf JRA

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will String queryString = URLDecoder.decode(request.getQueryString(), "UTF-8"); solve my problem? – user755806 Sep 17 '13 at 09:51
i don't think so ,but try it – Charaf JRA Sep 17 '13 at 10:04

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 17 '13 at 10:48

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I solved it by putting :

URLDecoder.decode(request.getQueryString(), "UTF-8");

answered Sep 17 '13 at 10:48

user755806

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it's good that you have solved your problem and posted an answer but it would have been much nicer if you have explained how you got the above code so others can understand – Sep 17 '13 at 11:06

HTML labels are displayed with ascii characters?

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