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Asked: 2026-06-04T01:38:11+00:00

I am facing issue while trying into insert special symbols like pound character (£

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I am facing issue while trying into insert special symbols like pound character (£ or ₤ ) in DB. These are getting displayed as ?? in the front end

We use tomcat as app server and have below configration in that

URIEncoding="UTF-8"

Before inserting the text to DB we are performing the below check

String Text = new String(request.getParameter("Text").getBytes("8859_1"),"UTF-8");

I dont have much idea about what the above code does

But when i remove "URIEncoding="UTF-8" from tomcat server.xml,these characters are loading fine

According to http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+Tomcat%27s+URI+encoding by default tomcat uses "ISO-8859-1" encoding

can anyone help on this please?

Thanks in Advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re asking Tomcat to give you values formatted as UTF-8, then converting that to a byte array based on ISO-8859-1 character set code points. You’re then directly casting those values back to UTF-8 code points, which is resulting in the characters getting garbled.

    Just remove the conversion stuff, leave the URIEncoding="UTF-8" entry in your config, and it should work fine.

    Also, keep in mind that your output encoding is important. If you’re sending back UTF-8 encoded pages, but have the encoding set differently in the page’s meta tags or the Content-Encoding HTTP response header, you’ll get garbled results for certain characters.

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