URLEncoder.encode not working in netscape for special characters

Hi all,

I have the following code in a jsp.

searchString = request.getParameter("searchString");

java.net.URLEncoder.encode(java.net.URLEncoder.encode(searchString,"UTF-8"),"U TF-8");

this was not working for special character ? It gets converted to ?.

I changed the code as given below:

searchString = request.getParameter("searchString");

searchString = new String(searchString.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"),"UTF-8");

java.net.URLEncoder.encode(java.net.URLEncoder.encode(searchString,"UTF-8"),"U TF-8");

It worked in IE but failed in netscape. I also tried adding these two lines in the beginning of the jsp.

request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

response.setContentType("text/html; charset=UTF-8");

but it was of no use.

Please suggest a way to make it work in netscape also.

Thanks in advance.

[891 byte] By [tech_nwa] at [2007-11-27 7:48:24]