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

I wasted time to generate utf-8 tables. Non of above worked for me. At last I have change my mysql config file & it works like a charm. If you are in linux(I am in ubuntu, I am sure there is a file for windows) open the file /etc/mysql/my.cnf and add the following code.

[client]
default-character-set=utf8

[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8


[mysqld]
collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci
init-connect='SET NAMES utf8'
character-set-server = utf8

Don't forget to restart mysql service.