Problems with character displaying from XML to Java

Question

Hi to all!
I am making a flash chat program which basically takes english and chinese
and talk to java using XML and java server distribute this message to all users,
While simply using java as a distributor of the data was fine, but when I try to
keep records of the chat into the mysql database, I realized that all the
chinese characters are displayed in random characters.
After some thought, I realized that flash using ASCII number representation
for each chinese word imay be different from the Java ASCII number representation, therefore, when Java sends
these ASCII characters to the mysql database, the words is no longer the words I wanted.
I am using a brute force, which on the flash side, I took the ASCII code of each chinese character that I
typed and use break and send them to java and recoded in java with java's Chinese character
and send to the mysql database, well, it works(I tried) but I need to type up at least 3000 characters!!!!!!!!
this is insane!
I am also wonder if the problem comes because Java encode Chinese in unicode, so
it does not recognize the ASCII, and therefore, the result is for sure weird.
If so, what do I need to do in order to convert ASCII into Unicode????
sincerely,
Suansworks

Answer 1

hello.
flash have some problems by utf but it seems that your problem is with mysql database because if you want to put utf in mysqk database you need to get latest version that is beta or alpha. please it using with other database that supports utf.