default Ms.Windows encoding use “CP-1252” or latin1 not “UTF-8“, it turns out that cause of my applications (forked and add some modification from -> https://github.com/virkt/Who_Wants_To_Be_A_Millionaire) that run well on Ubuntu but not in Ms.Windows, the same problem for web designers when dealing with “ie” 😉
on Ubuntu oke2 aja:
go to Win7…. chaos :
some notes:
1. ALTER DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
2. ALTER TABLE tablename CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
3. add after jdbc connection url
url+?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8
if use mybatis add on DataSourceFactory ->
on xml config :
<property name=”driver.encoding” value=”UTF-8″></property>
or if not use xml config:
Properties prop2 = new Properties();
prop2.setProperty(“driver.encoding”, “utf-8”);
PooledDataSource dataSource = new PooledDataSource(driver, url,prop2);
4. if necessary, can also create a new string
new String(soal.getPertanyaan().getBytes(),”UTF-8″)
5. and last try to add to the jvm property
java -Dfile.encoding=UTF8
and finally itextpdf also was going well.
agung susanto 