Re: [JDBC] é converted in é - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: [JDBC] é converted in é
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Msg-id 1360363931.86012.YahooMailNeo@web162903.mail.bf1.yahoo.com
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In response to é converted in é  ("Laurent Schweizer" <laurent.schweizer@peoplefone.com>)
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Laurent Schweizer <laurent.schweizer@peoplefone.com> wrote:

> I have an issue with special character like é.

> I have as server postgres 9.2, I have created a new DB , encoding
> utf8  
>
> Client is a very simple test class that:
> 1)      update  a varchar value
> 2)      read the same value and print them
>
> If I update the varchar with a special character like “é”  the
> value in the DB is correct ( I check them with another software )
> but when I read them from my simple java class  the value is not
> correct and the é is converted in é
>
> I have added to the connection string the option:
> ?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8
>
> And if I do a : "SHOW client_encoding;” I get  UTF8

It is behaving as though the client is using a character encoding
other than UTF8 -- some sort of 8-bit encoding, probably.  You must
set client_encoding to match.

-Kevin


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