mysql problem with german special characters

[Markus Kramer2]

hi,
I wrote a software and it worked quite good, but after I installed it on a new machine with j2se 1.4 I've problems with the german special characters.
this code works good on the old machine (jdk 1.3.1) and prints the wanted characters like �,�,�.
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Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver").newInstance();
java.sql.Connection conn;
conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/testdb?user=testuser&password=xxxx");
Statement s = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet r = s.executeQuery("select something from testtb where id='1'");
r.first();
System.out.println( r.getString(1) );
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but on the new machine (j2se 1.4) I only receive the character ?.
I updated my org.gjt.mm.mysql to the current MySQL Connector/J 3.0.9 and added
conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost/testdb?user=testuser&password=xxxx&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=ISO-8859-1");
but I've got still the same problem.
Thanks in advance
Markus

[Markus Kramer2]

I noticed that a simple
System.out.println("���");
prints
???
to the console (SuSE Linux 8.0).
is there a way to change the standard charset of java?