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

See "question marks" in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38363566/trouble-with-utf8-characters-what-i-see-is-not-what-i-stored .

Also,

⚈  spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.connection.characterEncoding=utf-8 
⚈  spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.connection.CharSet=utf-8 
⚈  spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.connection.useUnicode=true