Question

I am using Spring 3 MVC and MySQL 5 as my DB.

I have created a form using Spring form tags for updating an object in my database.

I enter “Ticket price: €35” into one of this form’s text input fields and save the item. Then when I view the item in a display page, the text appears as “Ticket price: ?35”.

If I enter “Ticket price: €35” directly into the database using MySql Query Browser, then the euro symbol displays fine through the display page.

What do I need to do so that my Spring form saves the euro symbol correctly to the database?

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Update:

Hi, I tried your suggestion, Bozho, with no luck.. my web.xml looks like this:

<filter>
    <filter-name>characterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>
         org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter
    </filter-class>
    <init-param>
       <param-name>encoding</param-name>
       <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
      <param-value>true</param-value>
    </init-param>
 </filter>


<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>characterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>




<servlet>
    <servlet-name>baseApp</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>baseApp</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

Any further thoughts?

Answer 1

Use the spring character encoding filter. In web.xml

<filter>
    <filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>
         org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter
    </filter-class>
    <init-param>
       <param-name>encoding</param-name>
       <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
      <param-value>true</param-value>
    </init-param>
 </filter>

And map it to the default servlet

Then, your MySQL connection string should look like this:

jdbc:mysql://localhost/dbName?characterEncoding=utf8