title: window.open with French characters in the url
body: <p>I use window.open to open a popup with French accented characters in the url.</p>
  
  <p>When a new popup opens, I see the French characters properly displayed in the url.</p>
  
  <p>ie.
  <a href="http://example.com/alt_title=Thierry" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/alt_title=Thierry</a>%20Frémaux%3A%20Les%20confiden</p>
  
  <p>However, when the request is processed by the Java web app and the get parameters are parsed, the French accented characters all become corrupted inside the HttpRequest object.</p>
  
  <p>Could you please tell me how to resolve this issue?</p>
  
  <p>The Url is constructed using javascript. The js actually extracts the values of the input tags inside a form to build that ULR. So, it'll be tricky to encode the url in Java </p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>