Is it always the same characters that appear instead of the apostrophe and double quote?
What
JDBC driver are you using? JDBC - ODBC bridge?
What happens with Oracle or mySQL?
I have seen things you people would not believe, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, c-beams sparkling in the dark near the Tennhauser Gate. All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.