For anyone who was watching me flail with JDBC and UNICODE... I finally gave up on unicode-- I switched the database encoding to MULE_INTERNAL and JDBC is handling everything I can throw at it (we'll just have to wait and see if my users manage to enter some unsupported characters). Thanks all for your help! Culley _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org