Hi there, as you know JDBC 4.0 now support unicode literal type, like NCHAR, NVARCHAR, NCLOB, LONGNVARCHAR. and there are lots of jiras asking we support these new types. it is easy to create hibernate types for these jdbc type, for example, i have a UnicodeStringType, so @Entity class Person{ @Id Long id; @Type('unicode-string-type') String name; } Query query = session.createQuery("from Person p where p.name = :name") query.setUnicodeString('name','刘少壮') is this okay? and any suggestions? ----------- Strong Liu<stliu(a)hibernate.org> http://hibernate.org http://github.com/stliu _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev