I'm not sure what needs solving. Were you expecting the greek mu character to be one byte in UTF-8? It is two bytes. See the link:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/3bc/index.htm UTF-8 is actually a variable-byte encoding scheme that can encode any character. It is interoperable with the 7-bit ASCII char set but encompasses all of the encodings of the universe... but with more than 8 bits, of course. -- Joe On Thursday, January 17, 2013 10:27:17 AM UTC-8, Bill Thayer wrote: > > Been searching a while now for the magic decoder ring that solves the > UTF-8 encoding issue. > > If I enter a mu (µ) by typing alt+0181 into my form field it looks fine. > Then looking at the data in SQLDeveloper (Oracle) the data is 2 little > boxes. NP I think the client encoding is wrong so I set my preferences to > UTF-8 but µ is still 2 boxes. Still not worried yet but then I refresh or > re-edit the field with the µ in it then it is returned from the database as > two question marks. Same behavior occurs with the squared (²) sign...two > boxes in db, two question marks in returned value on page. > > Anyone solve this yet? > > Thank you, > Bill > --
