Question

Iv’e configured mysql 5.0 to store utf8 characters.I checked it with following queries :

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SELECT character_set_name FROM information_schema.`COLUMNS` C
WHERE table_schema = "oprdb"
  AND table_name = "rtable"
  AND column_name = "rtxt";

the result is utf8

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SHOW FULL COLUMNS FROM rtable

this shows me collation as utf8_general_ci

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show variables like "character_set_database";
show variables like "collation_database";

this too shows utf8 in result

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it seems that mysql is configured correctly.
i am getting text from an html page where user types text in a textfield and i submit that text to servlet using jquery post.

My html page has this on top–

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

i also added this into my form —

enctype="text/plain;charset=UTF-8"

In my servlet the first line in doPost is

request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

and after that i just save that text in database.But the problem is that,i can’t store this kind of text

 Hiki iaʻu ke ʻai i ke aniani; ʻaʻole nō lā au e ʻeha.
 Я магу есці шкло, яно мне не шкодзіц

is their anything i am missing?

EDIT:

This is my datasource configuration..

<Resource auth                = "Container" 
            driverClassName     = "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" 
            factory             = "org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory" 
            initialSize         = "10" 
            logAbandoned        = "true"
            maxActive           = "50" 
            maxIdle             = "2" 
            maxWait             = "10000" 
            name                = "jdbc/oprdb" 
            username            = "root"
            password            = "123456" 
            removeAbandoned     = "true" 
            removeAbandonedTimeout = "60"  
            type                   = "javax.sql.DataSource" 
            url                    = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/oprdb" />

Answer 1

Update your url to jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/oprdb?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8
for utf-8 support