Problem while storing Japanese characters in Oracle 9i

[Hima Mangal]

Hi,

I am trying to store Japanese characters with Oracle 9i as the backend, with UTF-8 as the character set. The frontend used is JSP, which also has been given a character set encoding of UTF-8 using the following tags :

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

But the Japanese text input from the JSP get converted into the ASCII character set when I store them in the db.

Is there a way to set a property at the time of the JDBC connection which can help me store the Japanese text in UTF-8 format into the DB? I would greatly appreciate it if any of you can let me know such a way or any other workaround to this problem.

Thanks for the help.

Cheers
~H

[Dirk Schreckmann]

Hima M,

Welcome to JavaRanch!

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Thanks Pardner! Hope to see you 'round the Ranch!

[Hima Mangal]

Sure.. did that.. wasnt aware i was breaking any rules!

now if someone could only answer my q!