Problems reading Latin2 (ISO 8859-2) characters

Question

Hello!
I want to read the content of an MS Access table (in an MDB file) using the JDBC:ODBC driver.
The program works well but there is a character conversion problem when I read text fields from the table.
The Latin2 (ISO 8859-2) characters like áéíóőűüöÁÉÍÓÜÖŰŐ are replaced by the "?" character.
I use the ResultSet object's getString() method.
Any idea about how to solve this problem?

Answer 1

Try to change session encoding from defaut to iso-8559-2
This probably would help:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/jdbc/bridge.html
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What's New with the JDBC-ODBC Bridge?
* A jdbc:odbc: connection can now have a charSet property, to specify a Character Encoding Scheme other than the client default.
For possible values, see the Internationalization specification on the Web Site.
The following code fragment shows how to set 'Big5' as the character set for all character data.
// Load the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver
Class.forName(sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver) ;
// setup the properties
java.util.Properties prop = new java.util.Properties();
prop.put("charSet", "Big5");
prop.put("user", username);
prop.put("password", password);
// Connect to the database
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, prop);