How to handle special characters in web application

Hi,

I have a problem at hand. I tried to specify the encoding format in HTML page using <meta> tag, also set the character encoding of request object before accessing the parameters to "UTF-8". Tried to check encoding type using log statement, it is showing "UTF-8", but when am trying to print parameters after fetching, am seeing either garbage value or no signof special character in some cases. No clue why this is so ? can some one help me figuring it out ?

Thanks,
Chalap

To where are you printing the parameters?

But the web page that is generated by the servlet shows the characters correctly?

Thanks for response.

I am trying to print the input in system console. I do see correct input when i invoke javascript alert.

One addition to my post. The web page shows it correctly but i see wrong values in DB after storing. Perhaps i think the charset of DB is having some role to do with this.

I tried to print the input in console of IDE to verify and issue is obesrved in this situation.

The console may not support Unicode, so that's not necessarily an indication that something is going wrong.

Is the database set to Unicode encoding?