Hi
Alan and thanks for your reply.
I hope this will make things clearer but it's not even clear to me.
During a DB import, UTF-8 content of table records were automatically transcoded to the default DB encoding (latin 1). This gives us "xx��" instead of "xx�" for example.
I'm trying to do the same kind of "transcoding" (not sure this the correct term) thing in Java, i.e. to get out "xx��" of "xx�" so i can query those tables from String i loaded from the file system (UTF-8 is assumed). In the file: "xx�", in my the WHERE clause from my query Strings: "xx��".
I found a workaround (reasonable solution?) but I'm definitely not sure this is the way to go:
Any corrections appreciated

[ March 03, 2007: Message edited by: sri ranayama ]