[sclug] URL encoding/decoding question

Will Dickson wrd at glaurung.demon.co.uk
Mon Feb 20 18:38:45 UTC 2006


pieter claassen wrote:
> Ok, looks like mozilla is broken in regards to this matter.
> 
> So, I thought this should work to intercept all inserts into the db and
> just convert them back to something civil?
> 
> 	static public String decode (String data){
> 		data.replace(String.valueOf('\u20AC'),"€");
> 		return data;
> 	}
> However, no luck.
> 
> My question. How do I print the "data" string in the above code in UTF
> format so that I can see what is being submitted to the DB?

Something like:

byte[] wad = data.getBytes("UTF-8");
for(int i=0; i<wad.length; i++)
	System.out.println(Integer.toHexString( (wad[i] & 0xFF) ));

might do it.


Will.


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