Character Setting Problem ( mysql + tomcat )

Question

Hi all;
I am using mysql dbms and tomcat web server(servlet). But in my web page, the characters are shown broken. I set the character set of the mysql database. They are shown well in the dbms console. And also I set the html code with appropriate character set in the meta tags. Do I need to make any extra setting? Perhaps in the tomcat or anywhere else? What is the problem here?

Answer 1

assumes:
1. using jsp to display the db data
2. db encoding is ISO-8859-1
3. jsp encoding is utf-8
for the very first line of the jsp file:
<%@ page pageEncoding="utf-8" %>before displaying the data:
String str = <data from db>
str = new String(str.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8");