Issue when special character is passed as parameter

Hi All

One of my report expects a string type parameter. It works fine for plain strings but problem occurs when the URL contains special character like following string:
BlackBerry?
The URL clearly shows the correct string:
...&Make=BlackBerry?&...

When i display this parameter inside the report i see the following:
BlackBerry®

Due to this unexpected extra character all the further comparisons fail. Can someone tell me what is going on and how to fix this.

Thanks
yrraja
Using BIRT 3.7.2

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CBR

Can you try to change the character encoding to tell your browser to encode the special characters using UTF-8?

I m assuming that you are using Tomcat as server. See http://blog.oio.de/2010/12/31/solving-tomcat-encoding-problems-in-utf-8-webapps/ on how to configure Tomcat server to define encoding.

yrraja

HI cbrell

Thanks for this tip. I tried it out in my local dev environment and it did solve the issue.

This method requires Tomcat server restart which i cannot do at the moment so i ended up using another approach. Here is what i did:

1. I encoded the parameter value before passing it on using the javascript method "encodeURIComponent()"
2. In the target report i decoded is using the method "decodeURIComponent()"

Thanks