Hi, I am having trouble inserting and retrieving Asian characters in my MySQL DB using PreparedStatement. I have set up my table thus: CREATE TABLE `messages` ( `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `message_body` text NOT NULL, `sender_number` text NOT NULL, `shortcode` text NOT NULL, `image` longblob, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) CHARACTER SET utf8 TYPE=MyISAM; and am inserting using a PreparedStatement - pstmt.setString(indexOfColumnInQuestion, asianTextString); to insert in to message_body. However, when viewing the column in the query browser, and retrieving it from a ResultSet, it reads ????????????? ??? ???? and so on (I am attempting to insert Thai characters in this instance). Is there a method of PreparedStatement I am missing? thanks and regards Paul.
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