Question

I am Posting URL Encoded data to a jsp page (Tomcat Behind) from my iphone application (Encoded using the following method):

- (NSString *)stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:(NSStringEncoding)enc NS_AVAILABLE(10_3, 2_0);

And String Encoding used as parameter: NSUTF8StringEncoding

But somehow that data is incorrectly decoded.

Sample Text : ¥£€>€£

Encoded: %C2%A5%C2%A3%E2%82%AC%3E%E2%82%AC%C2%A3

Received on Cell As SMS: ¥ £ Φ > Φ  £

So, it seems that few characters are not encoded/decoded.

Any idea, what am i missing ?

Answer 1

The URI is encoded as UTF-8, but Tomcat is decoding them as ISO-8859-1. You need to edit the connector settings in the server.xml and add the URIEncoding="UTF-8" attribute.