hi: thank for any reply! I'm using tomcat4 and post html form data with utf-8 encoding. I has set the jvm argument like : -DSQLite.encoding=utf-8, but i can't insert the utf-8 string to the table. I do some test and I found that I must transform string to iso8859-1 firstly. Would you tell me how to use sqlite jdbc driver to handle utf-8 string? forgive me, my english is poor. thanks in advance!