“Incorrect string value” when trying to insert UTF-8 into MySQL via JDBC?

Question

This is how my connection is set:
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url + dbName + \"?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8\", userName, password

Answer 1

In my case, I tried everything above, nothing worked. I am pretty sure, my database looks like below.

mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.17, for Linux (x86_64) using  EditLine wrapper

Connection id:      12
Current database:   xxx
Current user:       yo@localhost
SSL:            Not in use
Current pager:      stdout
Using outfile:      ''
Using delimiter:    ;
Server version:     5.7.17-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (Ubuntu)
Protocol version:   10
Connection:     Localhost via UNIX socket
Server characterset:    utf8
Db     characterset:    utf8
Client characterset:    utf8
Conn.  characterset:    utf8
UNIX socket:        /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime:         42 min 49 sec

Threads: 1  Questions: 372  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 166  Flush tables: 1  Open tables: 30  Queries per second avg: 0.144

so, I look up the column charset in every table

show create table company;

It turns out the column charset is latin. That's why, I can not insert Chinese into database.

 ALTER TABLE company CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8;

That might help you. :)