\r\n encoding issue when reading from DB & Java

Question

I have a Java program that stores a message like "test1\\r\\ntest2" into DB - when I print this out it gives me new line. The other thread is reading strings from DB and sending them to output with "\\r\\n" and when I try to print this out it doesn't give me newline - it just prints out "test1\\r\\ntest2" Should I change the encoding of the output?

The application is deployed on tomcat with UTF-8 encoding set.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Are the strings actually stored in the database as "\\r\\n"?

In that case I think you have to do a

String correct = dbString.replace("\\r\\n","\r\n")

on the strings returned from the database.