Strange behaviour of jdbc-mysql driver

Question

I am trying to store japanese characters in mysql and display also after reading from the database using JSP. I am using the following code.
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%>
....... some code ......
<%
Class.forName( "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver" );
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/DB?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8", "user", "pass" );
Statement st = con.createStatement();
st.executeUpdate( "insert into test values('" + request.getParameter( "imgname" ) + "')" );
ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery( "select * from test" );
while( rs.next() ) {
%> DB Value: <%= rs.getString( "imgname" ) %>
<% } %>
I found one strange behaviour. I have to change the DriverManger.getConnection line to the following, to write the data correctly in the database.
DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/DB","user","pass")
If I read from the database using the same parameters as above, I am getting garbled data.
To retrieve the data correctly from the database I have to use the following line instead of the previous one.
DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/DB?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8", "user", "pass" );
In short, I have to pass different parameters to DriverManager.getConnection() for writing and reading from the database. But it is not possible practically. I am using mm.mysql-2.0.8 jdbc-mysql driver, mysql is 3.23.47 and english windows 2000.
I have tried the string.getBytes("UTF-8") and new String( getBytes(string), "UTF-8") methods, but not getting the correct data.
Can anybody guide me how can I store and display the japanese character correctly?
Thanks to all,
gaurang.

Answer 1

I downloaded the latese driver from sourceforge, but still the same thing is happening. Is there any other thing which I should do?
Thanks
gaurang.