Spring-Boot, Can't save unicode string in MySql using spring-data JPA

Question

I have my application.properties set up like this :

spring.datasource.username = root
spring.datasource.password = root
spring.datasource.url =         


        

Answer 1

Keep your hibernate configuration Like this

jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dbname?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8

And Change your DB Collation Like this

ALTER TABLE tablename CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

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