Encoding issue

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Hey guys I need a hint for encoding.

I am trying to save something with letter (that this server does not like neither - it dumps me to the 404), it goes well down to em.persist(), but it is saved to the database as ?
(passed to seam properly)

(Search on google for Cesky and you should get the letter C with accent)

I have Seam 2.0..latest and MySQL 5, my column encoding is utf8_general_ci

I tried

1. set hibernate.properties


2. set server.xml encoding


3. set <web:character-encoding-filter encoding="UTF-8" override-client="true" url-pattern="*.suff"/>

but none helped.

Do have any idea what could help?

Thanks Tom

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Stupid debian..

it is my.conf configuration

...
[mysqld]
character-set-server          = utf8
default-character-set          = utf8
user                               = mysql
port                               = 3306
..