I have met the same problem when I deal with chinese.
I guess tomcat and jdbc produced this bug.
But you may solute the charset display problem.
You change the database's charset is useless when you connected DB with JDBC. You
should convert Input Text with UTF-8 before saved in database. When yo
It seems like I was able to get it to work with UTF-8. I found this
nifty little page: http://www.anassina.com/struts/i18n/i18n.html which
explained how to handle this within Jakarta Struts. It SEEMS like when
reading the data from the database I don't need to explictly convert it
to UTF-8, i