Hibernate + MySQL: How to set the encoding utf-8 for database and tables

Question

My system runs on Linux Mandriva, RDBMS - MySQL 5. I need to have the database and tables created in UTF-8.

Here i

Answer 1

Via Spring Java Config dataSource() this should help:

@Bean
public DataSource dataSource() {    
    BasicDataSource dataSource = new BasicDataSource();    
    //your username/pass props
    dataSource.setConnectionProperties("useUnicode=true;characterEncoding=utf8;characterSetResults=UTF-8;");
    return dataSource;
}

Be careful about ';' at the end of properties string!