Unable to print text with quotes in Servlet

Asked Aug 15 '17 at 05:29

Active Aug 15 '17 at 06:35

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I have a web application where the user will insert any text, including quotes etc. I am sending these to the database. Anyway all my quotes are being replaced with â?? no matter what I do. I tried the below with the use of apache commons-text still no good. I believe I tried all methods there, only thing happened was getting them printed with different characters instead of â??. I am trying to pass the text overweight or obese, ‘apple shaped’, have unhealthy eating habits

String message = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml4(request.getParameter("message"));
System.out.println(message);

The result is simple as â??apple shapedâ??

How can I solve this matter?

edited Aug 15 '17 at 05:35

asked Aug 15 '17 at 05:29

PeakGen

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This looks more like a charset problem - what charset are you using? – Scary Wombat Aug 15 '17 at 05:30
@ScaryWombat: I didn't specify anything specifically. How to set that? – PeakGen Aug 15 '17 at 05:31
well I am not sure that you needs to ;-) Please show the exact text that is being entered – Scary Wombat Aug 15 '17 at 05:33
@ScaryWombat: Here we go with actual text, `overweight or obese, ‘apple shaped’, have unhealthy eating habits` – PeakGen Aug 15 '17 at 05:34
see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2477452/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC-showing-on-page-instead-of – Scary Wombat Aug 15 '17 at 05:34
@ScaryWombat: No, that's not the case unfortunatly. Im using UTF 8 in JSP – PeakGen Aug 15 '17 at 05:42
UTF8 in jsp but what about in your servlet? see https://stackoverflow.com/a/16549329/2310289 – Scary Wombat Aug 15 '17 at 05:42
Are you using tomcat by any chance? – Maurice Perry Aug 15 '17 at 06:13
@ScaryWombat: Thanks, that was the answer. Please provide the comment as an answer. – PeakGen Aug 15 '17 at 07:04
@MauricePerry: Yes, things worked with `ScaryWombat` answer – PeakGen Aug 15 '17 at 07:05

Unable to print text with quotes in Servlet

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