remove non-UTF-8 characters from xml with declared encoding=utf-8 - Java

Question

I have to handle this scenario in Java:

I\'m getting a request in XML form from a client with declared encoding=utf-8. Unfortunately it may contain not utf-8 charact

Answer 1

"test text".replaceAll("[^\\u0000-\\uFFFF]", "");

This code removes all 4-byte utf8 chars from string.This can be needed for some purposes while doing Mysql innodb varchar entry