use a prepared statement -- it will take care of encoding issues for you..
bradley mclain
>From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Illegal Servlet Call To Database?
>Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:16:51 -0400
>
>My servlet is making a JDBC request to a database with text that contains
>'.
>Example:
>
>select * from clients where name = 'Al D'ellrio'.
>
>The system returns an error, assuming that the ' is an error. How would I
>enter the character?
>
>
>Regards to all,
>
>
>
>Michael Katz
>
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