A quick guess is that there is a missmatch between your MySQL database encoding and your Java encoding settings. Make sure that your tables/database is set to at least UTF-8. [originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]
A google for this error showed that it's a common issue with some recent 5.0 MySQL JDBC driver versions. Try updating your JDBC driver jar to the latest from MySQL.
Thank you, ugrading to the latest MySQL connector fixed the problem.
I'm wondering why JForum developers are still using mysql-connector-java-5.0.3-bin.jar which is over a year old? [originally posted on jforum.net by Ree]
Helping support guys have job security... wait.. nobody gets paid for this... :lol:
Just simply being human and having other jobs to work at and it works fine on the developer/testers boxes.
But, fwiw, put a Jira issue in on it so that it is less likely to fall thru the cracks during the next release. [originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]
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