“Incorrect string value” when trying to insert UTF-8 into MySQL via JDBC?

Question

This is how my connection is set:
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url + dbName + \"?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8\", userName, password

Answer 1

Assuming you are using phpmyadmin to solve this error, follow these steps:

1. phpMyAdmin
2. your_table
3. "Structure tab"
4. change the Collation of your field from latin1_swedish_ci (or whatever it is) to utf8_general_ci