Java PreparedStatement setString changes characters

Question

As in title: to be sure, I was debugging my application, and so in line, where I put strings into PreparedStatement variable, special characters are changing to \"?\". I act

Answer 1

this normally happens by using different charsets in different locations. sound like you're getting your input as UTF-8, converting it to another chatset (maybe your database is set to something else) which breaks the special character.

to fix this: use the same charset everywhere*. (i would recommend using UTF-8)

*take a look at this or my answer to another thread (that's about a problem in php, but in java it's almost the same)