spring data jpa utf-8 encoding not working

Question

I use spring-data-jpa and mysql database. My tables character set is utf-8. Also I added ?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=utf8

Answer 1

Remember to escape any special characters, as below: spring.datasource.url=jdbc\:mysql\://localhost\:3306/${SERVER_DB_NAME}\?useUnicode=true\&characterEncoding=utf\-8\&characterSetResults=utf\-8