UTF8 not work proberly

Question

I have install MySQL ver 4.1.x, However, I still encounter the data become ???
problem...
I install MySQL ver 4.1.x and set the default connection to utf8.
If i enter the data manually, it works, and the data display as chinese char
acter. That's great!!!
However, if i insert the data by running my application, (which is a web app
liaction writen with Java struts tech and deploy on Tomcat server) the data
become ??? T_T
When retrieve also, the data store as chinese character become ??? after ret
rieve... T_T
My code to insert data:
Statement stmt=con.createStatement();
ResultSet rs=stmt.executeQuery("select * from custdetail where oid=31");
rs.next();
String fullname=new String(rs2.getString("fullname").getBytes("iso-8859-1"),
"UTF-8");
out.println("fullname:"+fullname);
rs.close();
stmt.close();My web page also got set:
<%@ page contentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8"%>
for web.xml, Database's connection url:
jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dms?characterEncoding=utf8
I think i am missing something...
anyone know how to solve the problem, please advise me =)
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
We are getting one problem,while retriving the data from Ms-Access.
We have the data stoted in Arabic format.But while retriving from the db and showing in JList(Swing) it is showing as ?????.
We have put the uti with the connection
Class.forName(AppConfig.get(DB_DRIVER)).newInstance();
Properties prop = new Properties();
prop.put ("charSet", "UTF8");
Connection conn = DriverManager
.getConnection(AppConfig.get(DB_URL),prop);
and put the Utf while retriving
String codeDesc = new String(rs.getString(CODEDESC).getBytes("iso-8859-1"),
"UTF-8");
Still no result
Please suggest .
Thanks,
HIMSIM