Hello Dick, Let us try to diagnose your problem.. Please clarify: are you sure you get correct Chinese characters from the database?
I advise you to open some file from your jsp page (create a os = FileOutputStream) then create a OutputStreamWriter(os,"Big5") and write the data you retrive from the database there. Do you get correct Chinese characters or gabbage? In either case we could try to trace you problem further. How does the data get to the database? If it gets there from a web page form there's a great chance that you just get malformed data from request.getParameter(), see my prev mails to the list i've suggested ways to solve that already or mail me privately. DW> When my jsp retrieve the data from mysql , it cannot display the Chinese DW> Character. DW> Why ??? DW> What's the problem ?? DW> I already add these lines on my .jsp : DW> <%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=Big5" language="java" import DW> ="java.sql.*, java.text.*, java.util.Date.*" %> DW> <%=result.getString("job_title") %></a></td> DW> It cannot display the chinese characteres. All become special symbol. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com