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Hibernate version:3.1

Name and version of the database you are using:MySQL 5.0

I am writing an application that may take as input supplementary unicode characters.( i.e. characters in unicode that have code points greater than U+FFFF.) Java 5.0 supports these characters.

1. Does hibernate support supplementary characters ?
2. Does the choice of database pose any problems?


thank you.

Hibernate doesn't care one way or the other. If you can put them in a String, Blob or Clob, then you can persist them.

Yes, your choice of DB matters. If you're storing these characters to a varchar, char or clob/text column, you may have to escape the characters, depending on your DB. If you store the data in blobs, then there are no dificulties (other than having to deal with blobs).