Spring-Boot, Can't save unicode string in MySql using spring-data JPA

Question

I have my application.properties set up like this :

spring.datasource.username = root
spring.datasource.password = root
spring.datasource.url =         


        

Answer 1

In your /etc/mysql/my.cnf file change the following.

[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8
[mysqld]
character-set-server=utf8