Adding Special Characters To MySQL DB Using Java

Hi,
I am trying to add occasional special characters (eg, accents, umlauts) to the mysql db and return them successfully. When I try to display the results I get a totally different character.
The weird thing is that when I add it from a textarea and display it, everything is fine. When I add it in a textbox it does not work fine.
Any ideas would be most gratefully appreciated.
Thanks
Mark

What sort of textbox are you talking about? HTML's standard text input or rather an awt component, a swing componenet, etc?

Hi
Thanks for responding....I am using the standard HTML textbox and textarea in my JSP.
Cheers
Mark

So, to clarify...
You're attempting to dump these special characters into a MySQL database via standard HTML controls, ie, text inputs and text areas. When you do so via a text area and then display your text all is well, however, when you do so via a text input...it doesn't work out.
Do I understand your issue before I attempt to duplicate this?
Cory