Oh yeah, upgrading softwares helps in a lot of situations. I should
have thought of it and advised it first. Glad that you've figured it
out yourself.
FYI, Java has reached 1.5.0_05, so better upgrade it too.
Information Architecture wrote:
> Teng-Fong,
>
> I appreciated your suggestio
Teng-Fong,
I appreciated your suggestion about the mysql query browser. I had
already tried a number of things to verify an 8859-1 char set but tried
this as well and it was indeed 1 byte. I did, however, finally resolve
the issue by upgrading the mysql connector J -- the app spec'd it at
This seems to be off-topic, but let's continue
Have you used MySQL Query Browser? Try to insert the sign and see
how many bytes it's using. If it's two, it's almost certainly using
UTF-8. If it's one, it seems to be OK. Then you have to figure out
which part in your webapp is changin
Hi! I've been following the posts on special characters and have a
similar problem. I hope this is an appropriate list to post it to. I am
not a java programmer, but support a vertical market application written
in java for which I do not have source and for which the vendor is
unhelpful at b
