Question

I have a jsp file that contains this code,

<form id="testForm">
    <input type="hidden" value="study--study is negative--echocardiogram--" name="hidAllProc"/>
</form>

Now, I serialize this form using jQuery’s .serialize() function and send it in a post request to another jsp, and then in this jsp I simply send the “request” object to a java class and use request.getParameters(“hidAllProc”) to retrieve the hidden field value.

Now, the problem is that I tried to print the value that I get in the java class and it was like this, “study..study is negative..echocardiogram..”. All the “–” have been replaced by “..”. I encountered this behavior only in a particular PC. This code runs perfectly in my and my friends PC. I need help since I tried alomost every possible thing that I can and have exhausted of all ideas!

Thanks,
Rishabh

Answer 1

jQuery serialize serializes using utf8.
You might want to try put

<%@codepage=65001%>

at the top of the receiving page, it’s the codepage for utf8.
If it doesn’t work, on your java class, you can decode your your input with

URLDecoder.decode(x)