Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com> writes:
> With regards to your specific problem, my guess is that you haven't
> created you database with the proper character set for the data you are
> storing in it. I am guessing you simply used the default SQL Acsii
> character set for your created database and therefore only the first 127
> characters are defined. Any characters above 127 will be returned by
> java as ?'s.
Does this happen with a non-multibyte-compiled database? If so, I'd
argue that's a serious bug in the JDBC code: it makes JDBC unusable
for non-ASCII 8-bit character sets, unless one puts up with the overhead
of MULTIBYTE support.
regards, tom lane
