Re: issue tomcat and special characters

2005-11-15 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
IMO, it's a bad idea to still use Latin-1 these days. The best way is to find out why you can't insert those characters. Well, I don't know why you can't do so. Maybe there's because the MySQL provided by EasyPHP is quite old. By the way, since you use EasyPhp, that implies you're using

Re: issue tomcat and special characters

2005-11-13 Thread ary martini
Hi Seak, thank you for your response. 1) mysql has charset Latin I would like to use ISO-8859-1 as encoding, as I can then insert special characters like è and à. For some reason it does not work for UTF-8 in my case Do you know How I can change the charset on mysql? I cannot locate any config

Re: issue tomcat and special characters

2005-11-13 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
On what encoding is your MySQL configured? ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8? Those Ãx means that your characters are in UTF-8. Somehow, something in your program sends UTF-8 to the DB server. I've done a webapp totally in UTF-8 without any problem. But I have to say that I don't have the same confi