Question

I have an input box in my web app, If I type the following input:

char ʃƪ

on server side when I try to build an xml doc using Jdom it crashes raising the following exception:

org.jdom.IllegalDataException: The data “char (3A” is not legal for a JDOM attribute: 0x1a is not a legal XML character.

     at org.jdom.Attribute.setValue(Attribute.java:491)      
     at org.jdom.Attribute.<init>(Attribute.java:228)
     at org.jdom.Attribute.<init>(Attribute.java:251)
     at org.jdom.Element.setAttribute(Element.java:1128)

this is how the browser encodes the ajax call
…&MESSAGE=char%20(3%1AA

on server side when I do
pRequest.getParameter(“MESSAGE”);
it returns me: “char (3A“

Any ideas what’s going on there?

Answer 1

It is working now.

I switched from the jQuery plug-in URLEncode to the native javascript function:

encodeURIComponent()

Moreover I found out that in an ajax call you can specify the contentType

contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8"