Chinese character in URL with Java

Question

I used the following line in Firefox's URL field :

http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=你

This line was generated by my Java program.

The last Chinese character in the URL field sometimes became: %C4%E3 [Correct]

Other times it became: %E4%BD%A0 [Incorrect]

I tried to use the URL with IE. It shows up still as 你, but the result page search field shows the character as 浣. Could this be a UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding problem? How do I get the correct code %C4%E3 from the char 你 with my Java program?

Answer 1

URLEncoder.encode(string, encoding)