Cannot get UTF-8 Strings from MySQL DB -------------------------------------- Key: HHH-3443 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3443 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 3.2.6 Environment: MySQL 5, JRE 1.6 Reporter: Chris Welz Hi, I've tried now for 2 days to get my Hibernate Application reading UTF-8 Strings from the Database with no success. I created my Database with the following SQL Script: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `t_gvz_type_name` ( `ID_GVZ_Type_Name_intern` int(11) NOT NULL, `Type_GVZ` int(11) default NULL COMMENT 'Typ der Gebietskörperschaft', `Name_GVZ_Type` varchar(50) default NULL COMMENT 'Name des Types der Gebietskörperschaft', `LanguageID` int(11) default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`ID_GVZ_Type_Name_intern`), KEY `FK_GVZ_Type_Name_Language` (`LanguageID`), KEY `FK_GVZ_Type_Name` (`Type_GVZ`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COMMENT='Name des Gebietskörperschaftstypes'; My hibernate.cfg.xml: <property name="hibernate.bytecode.use_reflection_optimizer">false</property> <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</property> <property name="hibernate.connection.password">christian</property> <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/vzf_net?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=utf8</property> <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property> <property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class">org.hibernate.context.ThreadLocalSessionContext</property> <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect</property> This is, how I try to get the values from DB: List result = session.createQuery("from TGvzTypeName where TGzvType="+TypeGvz).list(); What do I have to do to get the Strings in UTF-8 ? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira