Illegal character - CTRL-CHAR

Question

I am getting following exceptopn from webservices:

com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: Illegal character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 15))

Answer 1

If you have control characters in your text data then you need to solve that problem at its source.

The most likely causes are incorrect communication encodings (usually between database and app) or not sanitising user input.