Subject Re: [Firebird-Java] Picture Servlet Problems possibly OT
Author William L. Thomson Jr.
Blas,

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:53, Blas Rodriguez Somoza wrote:
>
> It seems from your code that you get the Blob with a getString() and this
> is the problem

I am not sure why in this servlet I used getString()?

> If you use getString() to get a value from a Blob column then the driver
> must do a character conversion between the character set in which the bytes
> are encoded and the one of the JVM.

Good to know.

> Please get the blob with getBytes() and most probably your problem will
> disappear.

I made the change, removed the lc_ctype specification for the
connection, and it works.

That was my problem. Always the obvious. Oh well, thanks anyway.


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