Question

I have a form that users generally copy and paste into. When there are apostrophes in the copy and past they all turn into question marks. For example, someone just copied and pasted the title of this article:

http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/47796

When the user copies and pastes in a regular form that does a post, this issue occurs. However, I also have ajax submits via JSON and when done this way the apostrophes are fine from the same exact copy and paste. This method uses the Jackson json message converter.

Additionally, I checked the encoded form data and it seems fine:

Atlantic+Avenue%E2%80%99s+Sahadi%E2%80%99s+Preps+For+Wall-To-Wall+%28To+Wall%29+Expansion

I tried using an online decoder and the text decoded fine.

Anyone know what’s going on with the form submit that would cause this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to include a filter in your web.xml

<filter>
    <filter-name>characterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>encoding</param-name>
        <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </init-param>
</filter>