-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Huang wrote:
> Victor, > > I'm positive the database is storing ?'s. You may test with these steps: > > 1) insert "\u7247\u4EEE\u540D" into a UTF8 table; James, Have you set your JDBC driver's character set to be UTF-8 using the characterEncoding property? > 2) Query and get it back into string s; > 3) for each char c in s: System.out.println((int)c); Here's what I get (converting the chars to int to avoid any display problems)...at least on my end, w/ Connector/J 3.0.14 and MySQL-4.1.x, what I put in is what I get back out, so my guess is something between the database and your display is munging the characters...Is whatever you're using for output set to the correct encoding?: As Java Unicode (int)chars: 7247 4eee 540d Retrieved from database as (int)chars: 7247 4eee 540d (full disclosure, here's my testcase): public void testFoo() throws Exception { Properties props = new Properties(); props.setProperty("characterEncoding", "utf-8"); Connection utf8Conn = getConnectionWithProps(props); Statement utf8Stmt = utf8Conn.createStatement(); utf8Stmt.executeUpdate("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS testFoo"); utf8Stmt.executeUpdate("CREATE TABLE testFoo (field1 VARCHAR(32) CHARACTER SET UTF8) CHARACTER SET UTF8"); utf8Stmt.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO testFoo VALUES ('\u7247\u4EEE\u540D')"); System.out.println("As Java Unicode (int)chars: "); String asUnicode = "\u7247\u4EEE\u540D"; for (int i = 0; i < asUnicode.length(); i++) { System.out.println(Integer.toHexString((int)asUnicode.charAt(i))); } System.out.println(); ResultSet rs = utf8Stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM testFoo"); rs.next(); String utf8String = rs.getString(1); System.out.println("Retrieved from database as (int)chars: "); for (int i = 0; i < utf8String.length(); i++) { System.out.println(Integer.toHexString((int)utf8String.charAt(i))); } } - -- Mr. Mark Matthews MySQL AB, Software Development Manager, J2EE and Windows Platforms Office: +1 708 332 0507 www.mysql.com MySQL Guide to Lower TCO http://www.mysql.com/it-resources/white-papers/tco.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAvha1tvXNTca6JD8RAiB6AJ9FGD0XHFwph8pBJSM5iBQeypbYfwCguIEV kgjo+ZcICok1bdypNl82cVc= =uRlQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]