Support of several charset in import.sql file --------------------------------------------- Key: HBX-711 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HBX-711 Project: Hibernate Tools Issue Type: Improvement Environment: Hibernate 3.2, all database platforms Reporter: Thomas SEGISMONT Priority: Minor Original Estimate: 1 day Remaining Estimate: 1 day For the moment, only the default execution platform charset encoding is supported for the import.sql file. Indeed, in the org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport class, the reader of that file is created like this : importFileReader = new InputStreamReader( stream ); In my development team, we have windows, linux and mac os and we want to use UTF-8 (we need special chars like the euro sign). It would be helplful to have a way to tell Hibernate what charset encoding it should use.