(Sorry if this is the wrong forum..)
I'm building a web application which uses the Irish language. This is my first time working on a java program that uses another language other than English so I need to teach my self about character encoding and charset issues.
Specifically I need to retrieve information from the database. I've got data in a MySQL database that is in Irish, but when I retrieve a column using
rs.getString("column_name")
("rs" being an instance of the java.sql.ResultSet) and print that to a log or the console I can see that it's garbled. The Irish fada is being lost and something else is appearing.
If anyone can point me into a direction where I can do some relevant reading or provide pointers I'd be grateful. Even posting simple phrases or helpful terms for a Bing/Google search would be helpful.