The dbms stores UTF-8 fine and I can see them in the same JSP with has the text box for inputting characters to my test app.
I don't use prepared statements but I could if you think that may have an effect? I'll try that. The fact that the browser can receive Euro symbols should mean that the driver is Ok? Should it not? Andoni. ----- Original Message ----- From: "THG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 7:42 PM Subject: Re: UTF-8 Sending to Database. > It could be, that the form data is double encoded or > the jdbc driver automatically encoding the data on the > fly. do u use prepared statements (setString())? > > what is the encoding of your dbms? > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 19:22:55 > Andoni wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I am trying to send a Euro symbol ( ? ) to my database but it keeps being > >corrupted on the way to the servlet from the form on my page. > > > >When I replace the SQL string in my servlet with one which has a Euro symbol > >hard-coded it works fine and displays in my .jsp fine as the Euro symbol but > >when I submit a form from my JSP with a Euro symbol it gets corrupted into > >nonsense on the way to the servlet. > > > >Can anyone please help?? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Andoni. > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. > http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
