Actually the prepared statements couldn't help as I can get the Euro symbol into the database fine by hard-coding it into my statement. It is only getting the information **from the form to the servlet** that is having a problem.
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]
