On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:35 PM, iananewby<ian@...> wrote:

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>
> Hi Folks,
> We've been running a web app (since fb 0.9) using character set none,
> however we are trying to move it to win1253.
>
> The database has been sucessfully converted, and appears correctly in
> IBExpert etc.
>
> The only issue I have is the java/tomcat!
>
> I am trying to serve everything as UTF-8. if I add a encoding = UTF-8 to the
> connection will jbird convert the win1253 to UTF-8, or do I set the encoding
> to the database encoding!
>
> Or do I set the character set property?
>
> Its all very confusing.
>
> What I have at the moment is encoding=UTF-8 in java.

There is no encoding in java. You have two encodings: database
encoding and html pages encoding.
So you should use win1253 for a database connection and UTF-8 for pages.

>
> This seems to be sending the data incorrectly. The browser says it in UTF-8,
> but the £ signs are not displayed. If I change the browser to win1253 they
> display correctly!
>
> Any hints anyone?
>
> Regards
> Ian
>
>