JasperReports Server：数据库编码问题-西里尔符号未显示

Question

I'm trying to run report on JasperReports Server . My MySQL db encoding is cp1251.
The result of running report

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?- must be the Russian symbols. I found solution to set URL in report datasource

jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/database?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=cp1251. 

But it doesn't works. What I'm doing wrong?

Connection settings are

    Variable_name       Value   
character_set_client        cp1251  
character_set_connection        cp1251  
character_set_database  cp1251  
character_set_filesystem        binary  
character_set_result        cp1251  
character_set_server        cp1251  
character_set_system        utf8    

Answer 1

I resolve the problem. I set the parameter init-connect="SET NAMES utf8" in file /etc/mysql/my.cnf