Remove non-ASCII characters from String in Java

Question

I have a URI that contains non-ASCII characters like :

http://www.abc.de/qq/qq.ww?MIval=typo3_bsl_int_Smtliste&p_smtbez=Schmalbl�ttrigeSomerzischeruchtanb

Answer 1

Use Guava CharMatcher

String onlyAscii = CharMatcher.ascii().retainFrom(original)