Hello all,

I am trying to get the right character encoding standard for our application.

I am using the below properties to get the configuration right
<property name="hibernate.connection.characterEncoding">UTF-16</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.useUnicode">true</property>


I am not sure what our earlier DB access used as a character encoding standard. And there is no way I can find out since we dont have that source code.

My question is . When I try to save and display some chinese charcters through hibernate, everything works fine.

But if I want to read something chinese that is already there in database, hibernate does not decode it properly right now.

I have tried using UTF-8 nad UTF-16 . what are the different encoding standards that hibernate supports ? Can anyone point them out to me. I tried to find and wasnt able to do that ?

Also if there is some other way you deal with problem .. please let me kneow

Thanks
Shobhana