utf-8, GET and Request.getQueryString()

[dolittle]

Hi,

I`m using a server that receive a GET request with a query string that contains double-byte non-latin characters:

http://www.example.com?%d7%90

and the java code:

 String queryString = request.getQueryString();
queryString = URLDecoder.decode(queryString, "utf-8");
 

I`m getting ? characters instead.
It works fine with > charcater (%3e) though.

I`m using fiddler and firebug to ansure that the url is correctly encoded and compare it with http://www.profitcode.net/resources/tools/utf8_encoder_applet.html

On eclipse I set a breakpoint and see that the queryString is correct but when using URLDecoder only the non-latin character turn to ?.

Is there an alternative or a workaround to URLDecoder?

Thanks