Re: German special characters Problem - Mailing list pgsql-general

Amin Schoeib wrote:

> Hi,
> Can somebody tell me why german special characters like 'ü' or 'ä'
> will be changed
> To '?' when retrieving data from postgres with Java (JDBC). When I
> select the data under
> Postgres everything is ok. The problem occurs when I select the data
> with Java.
>
> ???
>
> Hope somebody can helps.
>
> Thanxx
>
> Schoeib
>
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It can be anywhere in the datastream where the encodings don' tmatch.
Usually it's how the database was 'initdb'