Display special characters using System.out.println

Question

I\'m having trouble sending or displaying text with special characters from my webservice to my database. On my eclipse I have set the character encoding to UTF-8 but it sti

Answer 1

See if this works.

    PrintStream out = new PrintStream(System.out, true, "UTF-8");
    out.println(test);

For storing in DB, use following to explicitly encode the string in UTF-8

String newString = new String(test.getBytes(), "UTF8");