I am trying to get Chinese characters from a SQL Server 2005 database server with my web application hosted with Jboss server on a Linux box (RHEL). The issue is that the Chinese characters never get returned from the database, showing some square boxes instead. I have tried both the JTDS drivers as well as the SqlJdbc drivers from Microsoft for this. Interestingly the same combination of database and drivers works fine in a Windows environment with the Chinese characters returned in a string from the result set.
Any help on the issue would be greatly appreciated.
There's not really enough info about what you're doing with the data between the time it comes out of the database, and the time it gets displayed in the view. It might be a good idea to print some debug information in both Linux and Windows to see what the differences are for certain System properties, like if you output System.getProperty("file.encoding") in both scenarios, what do you get?
You might want to try using JAVA_OPTS=-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8.
Perhaps the discussion at the link below might help.
https://community.jboss.org/thread/155260?_sscc=t
It doesn't sound like this is a database/driver related problem.
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I have a Java Servlet running on a Tomcat Server with a MySQL database connection using JDBC.
If I have following piece of code works in, the hard-coded-HTML code works, but everything that comes from the database is displayed incorrectly.
response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8")
If I remove the line the text from the database gets displayed correct, but not the basic HTML.
In the database, and Eclipse everything is set to UTF-8.
On first sight it looks as if you were converting the text from the database again, once too much.
So the first check is the database. For instance the length of "löl" should be 3. Whether the data stored is correctly, read correctly. As #StanislavL mentioned, not only the database needs the proper encoding, in MySQL also the java driver that communicates needs to be told the encoding with ?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8.
Maybe write or debug a small piece of code reading the database.
If stored correctly the culprit might be String.getBytes() or new String(bytes).
In the browser inspect the encoding or save the pages.
With a programmer's editor like NotePadd++ or JEdit inspect the HTML. These tools allow reloading with a different encoding, to see what the encodings are.
It should be that the first page is in UTF-8 and the second in Windows-1252 or something else.
Ensure that the HTML source text is correct: you might use "\u00FC" for ü in a JSP.
I have an application running on Jelastic. The Java based web application is running on Glassfish and the database server is MySql.
I developed the project on Netbeans and there was no character problem when running the project on the local machine (Turkish Windows 8).
When running on Jelastic, there is no character problem related to the web pages. However, there is problem when form based interactions are called.
Some Turkish characters are not processed when a search query or customer registration tasks are executed. Those characters missing (recorded to the MySql as ?)are the ones differing from the Latin. For example "ö", which is also used in German is not the problem.
Problematic characters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Turkish_characters
As I said previously, I dont have such problem when working on local Glassfish rolled in Netbeans.
I checked out the phpMyAdmin server, and I think that some values (that are set by default such as latin1_swedish_ci) might be the cause for loss of Turkish characters.
I tried to change the values on , but those are reset to the defaults when the server is restarted. Could this be the source of my problem? If so, how could I set them permentantly?
Your kind support will be greatly appreciated.☺
where exactly you are applied changes?
As I know these settings can be changed at etc/my.cnf via Jelastic Dashboard in MySQL.
Concerning Character Setting you will help this link:
Change MySQL default character set to UTF-8 in my.cnf?
If the problem persists ask your hosting provider for help with this issue.
We are having a character set issue and have not been able to figure it out. We have a server in a data center in Poland being used by some people in Italy. Italy is FTPing the data to Poland in a flat file that is being read by a Java program and being inserting into an MS SQL server database. The data is then being displayed on the web using an IBM IHS web server fronting an IBM WebSphere server. The batch, database, web and app servers are all Windows boxes in Poland.
We are getting some instances of character substitution. Specifically, the à (small letter A with a grace) is getting displayed on the web as an ŕ (small letter R with an acute). We can see that the à in the CP1252 Western European character set, and the ŕ the CP1250 Eastern European character set occupy the same place (see http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/), so we believe this is a character set issue.
The fields in the database are all nvarchar. We have tried various setting for the field collation to no avail. We tried setting the character set on the WebSphere app server JVM, but that did not help either. The Poland server will be hosting sites for multiple countries in Europe, so changing the default language and character set in Windows is not really a good option.
Any clues would be greatly appreciated!
Does data gets messed up only in the front-end or is it altered in the database also? It would be interesting to try to divide the problem to identify at which point data gets changed.
You can see a discussion about the JVM charset here.
First of all i know that this problem is known, and have a lot of answers, but mine is little bit different or unusual.
So, i'm using Eclipse SDK Version: 3.7.1, and i'm developing java app (JRE 1.7) which will work with database.
Since application is in Croatian language I have problems with special characters - č,ć,đ and their insert into DB (mysql dbms, embedded with xampp).
However, i know little about encoding stuff, and i tried to set DB to cp1250_croatian_ci, UTF8_unicode_ci, UTF8_general_ci, latin2_croatian_ci, but sadly I had same problem with each of those. (is it mandatory to SET NAMES utf8 (or something like that) after each connection to DB?)
Also, i want to point it out, that inserting (č,ć,đ) inside phpMyAdmin works fine.
So if i want to insert into DB characters č,ć,đ they are represented as ?. So basicly that means that encoding or charset or something else is problem.
Also I'm using JDBC driver: mysql-connector-java-5.1.18-bin
From: docs
I want to mention that I didn't have problems, while DB was hosted on godaddy.com server
In addition project text encoding (in Eclipse) is set to "Inherited from container (CP1250)", also I tried with UTF-8 but that didn't help me.
I think you can do as follow
1 first you should set the mysql encodding to utf-8;
2 second when you connection db you should set the connection properties as follow
you can try this
jdbc:mysql://ip:3306/yourDBName?useUnicode=true&characterEncode=UTF-8
I think when you use the jdbc connection may be you lost the useUnicode=true&characterEncode=UTF-8
The unicode character from a rails app appears as ??? in the mysql database (ie when I view through putty or linux console), but my rails app reads it properly and shows as intended.I have another java application which reads from the rails database and stores the values in its own database. and try to show in from its database. But in the webpage, it appears like ??? instead of the unicode characters.
How is that the rails application is able to show it properly and not the java application. Do I need to specify any encoding within the java application?
You really need to find out whether it's the Java app that's wrong, the Rails app that's wrong, or both. Use PuTTY or a Linux console isn't a great way of checking this, as they may well not support the relevant Unicode characters. Ideally, you should find a GUI which you can connect to the database, and use that to check the values. Alternatively, find some MySQL functions which will return the Unicode code points directly.
It's quite possible that the Rails app is doing the wrong thing, but in a reversible way (possibly not always reversible - you may just be lucky at the moment). I've seen this before, where a developer has consistently used the same incorrect code page when both encoding and decoding text, and managed to get the right results out without actually storing the correct data. Obviously that screws up any other system trying to get at the same data.
You may want to check the connection parameters: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-connection.html
I guess your Java application may use wrong encoding when reading from rails' database, wrong encoding of its own database or in connection with it.