How to set useUnicode=true and characterEncoding=utf8 properties on Spring-managed MySQL JDBC connection

Question

I\'m currently building a Spring MVC webapp and the database is the vital backend part. For whatever reason, however, Spring is refusing to process the data as UTF-8. Since the

Answer 1

Did you try:

    
        yes
        utf8
    

And also: Did you try a simple Java client (console application) that connects to the DB? Does the UTF-8 work in this case?