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Akshay
Akshay

Reputation: 1817

Submitting POST form data in UTF -8

I have a form in which the user enters his name in Chinese, but when I do

String strName = request.getParameter("name");

I get strName as some meaningless characters. As a solution I tried

request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

before reading any parameters from the request object. This worked. What I want to know is how do I achieve this in HTML/javascript . I have tried the 

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

but this doesn't work . Any help?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 21380

Answers (3)

deed02392
deed02392

Reputation: 5022

In pure HTML you should need <form enctype="multipart/form-data" accept-charset="UTF-8"> set to submit utf-8 in the browser.

Upvotes: 0

Jukka K. Korpela
Jukka K. Korpela

Reputation: 201538

What you do client-side affects how the data is sent. Apparently the data is sent as UTF-8 encoded, since the problem was in reading it server-side. So adding the meta (though OK) has no effect on this.

Upvotes: 0

Joni
Joni

Reputation: 111219

It should work if you define the charset in the Content-Type request header. I believe it is usually not defined by default. For example if you use jQuery to make the request you have to add "charset=utf-8" to the contentType option: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

There's no way to force a web browser to send Content-Type for every request, so it's better call setCharacterEncoding always.

Upvotes: 2

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