How to escape Special Characters in JSON

Question

We have a form which has a long paragraph for a scienctific application that contains characters like symbol beta(ß-arrestin) etc. We have a JSON service running on Mule tha

Answer 1

At the target you can receive the data as text/plain.

Clean it by running :

input.replaceAll("\\p{Cc}", "").

Convert it back to JSON data using any JSON library :

JSONObject inputParams = JSONObject.fromObject(input);

Hope it helps.