Special characters in java, oracle and html

From: Barry Olly (bbo_at_africamail.com)
Date: 10/20/03 

Date: 20 Oct 2003 07:54:51 -0700

Hi,

I'm working on a mini content management system and need help with
dealing with special characters.

The input are taken from html form which are then stored into a
varchar column in oracle database.

When i retrieve the data, some of the special characters have been
changed to ??? and also
fields with double quote are modified.

I believe there two issues;

1. dealing with special characters

2. display special characters back in html form textfield after
retrieving.

e.g.

This is the line with "quote" saved to database
This is the line with "quote" retrieved from database

This is the line with displayed in html text field.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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