> > My assumption right now is that the driver encodes the query

string

> > I provide, in the the default encoding of the JVM which I

believe is

> > a mistake.
>
> I'm not sure about this. Usually SQL statement is specified in ISO
> Latin 1 and we have to check if any string literal that is not
> compatible with ISO Latin 1 is allowed there.
>
> If you build SQL queries on the fly, you have to switch to the
> PreparedStatements.

No, I'm already using PreparedStatements, that is I use the setXXX()
family of methods to set data for the query.