Conversion from UTF-8 to actual character in java

Question

I am sending a parameter string value, a french character " ç ", to my web service in JAVA thorough GET method. In java, it is shown in UTF-8 encoded form as %C3%A7 .

How can I convert it back to the same french character during the execution itself?

Answer 1

Tha answer you nned is the one liked by @Joe; you need to "convert" the query string:

String result = java.net.URLDecoder.decode(url, "UTF-8");

It's not a matter of UTF-8 econding, rather a url enconding one.

A side note: in the comments you stated that you are passing the data via GET, if the semantic of the web service is to modify the data I suggest to use the POST method.