Question

How could I integrate Spring with Hibernate using sql server 2005 and have Unicode support. I tried many different ways but I just couldn’t get it to work.

Column in the table is nvarchar, character set in Spring is UTF-8. I can read Unicode text (which I added myself using the sql server management tool) just fine but writing doesn’t work, it get’s gibberished in the DB.

jdbc url is

jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;useUnicode=true;characterEncoding=UTF-8;databaseName=test; 

with these properties in the hibernate configuration file

<property name='hibernate.connection.useUnicode'>true</property> <property name='hibernate.connection.charSet'>UTF8</property> 

I also have a filter which changes the encoding for all pages

response.setContentType('text/html; charset=UTF-8'); request.setCharacterEncoding('UTF8');  chain.doFilter(request, response);  //do it again, since JSPs will set it to the default response.setContentType('text/html; charset=UTF-8'); request.setCharacterEncoding('UTF8'); 

is there some good soul who succeeded in doing so, and can help?

Many thanks!

Answer 1

It seems that you need to change the response and the request encoding in the filter to UTF-8 and all is good!