By Xueming Shen The UTF-8 charset implementation, which is available in all JDK/JRE releases from Sun, has been updated recently to reject non-shortest-form UTF-8 byte sequences.

If you are running Java through your terminal or command line without a separate library of graphical user interface components, your "system.out.println()" method may not use Unicode by default.

PlainText is a Java 1.4 graphical (GUI) application to convert Unicode characters to plain text characters, for example, to convert left and right quotation marks into plain quotes for web pages.

CharMap is a Java 5.0 graphical (GUI) application to display Unicode characters or glyphs in text fonts, and copy those characters to the system clipboard. Its major purpose is as a visual accessory ...

Note that the string UTF-8 is the Java way of specifying the charset; MySQL uses the string utf8. If changing charsets, you’ll have to compare what Java supports with what MySQL supports.

So I picked two Unicode chars that are outside the normal range of chars I'd send.<P>Which leads to the second issue.<BR>Because I'm filtering my OutputStream, I thought<BR>I'd subclass the ...