Hi Seak, thank you for your response. 1) mysql has charset Latin I would like to use ISO-8859-1 as encoding, as I can then insert special characters like è and à. For some reason it does not work for UTF-8 in my case Do you know How I can change the charset on mysql? I cannot locate any config file etc. I use Easyphp containing mysql 4.0 Thank you very much for your input Ary
"Seak, Teng-Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On what encoding is your MySQL configured? ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8? Those Ãx means that your characters are in UTF-8. Somehow, something in your program sends UTF-8 to the DB server. I've done a webapp totally in UTF-8 without any problem. But I have to say that I don't have the same config like you. My Tomcat is 5.5.x. Moreover, are you using the correct JDBC driver from MySQL? And the most important of all, my MySQL is 4.1 which supports UTF-8 for the first time, well, if I don't make mistake in understanding this page: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/newsletter/2003-02/a0000000129.html The question is what encoding you'd like to use. If it's UTF-8, which IMO is much easier because JVM is already in Unicode, I could help you. If it's ISO-8859-1, I'm afraid you'd need to do more work to do your conversion here and there. Before making the webapp, I've done a sample Java application, a sort of proof-of-concept, to make that the communication between Java and MySQL dosn't alter information. Maybe you should do so. And what's inside the i18n.jsp? ary martini wrote: >Hi Team > >I am using tomcat 4.1.29 with mysql 4.0 > >My application runs on tomcat. There is a file "includes.inc.jsp" on my >application which specifies the character setting to ISO-8859-1. > >Issue: >I cannot insert special characters into my database. >Example: à , è or ü and ö are inserted as orphan characters like è and ? or à > >Test: >I have changed the charset to UTF-8, it has no effect. For some reason tomcat >deafults the encoding. > >Question >How can I check and change the encoding on tomcat? > >Here an extract from my charset : > > > > > > > > > >Thank you very much >Ary > > > >--------------------------------- > Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.
