Mysql latin characters issue in java

Question

I have a table named 'tasks' with columns taskid, taskname and description.

Description column has values with latin characters like 'ô' .

SELECT    cast(`taskname` as binary)
FROM  `tasks` TC_1
WHERE  (cast(`description` as binary)  IN ( 'Impôrtant'  ))

When I run a query like this in MySQL, I'm getting the result but when I run the same query using java executequery method, the resultset is empty.

I have tried the below query too:

SELECT    cast(`taskname` as binary)
FROM  `tasks` TC_1
WHERE  (cast(`description` as binary)  IN (cast( 'Impôrtant' as binary )))

but facing the same issue.

I think the issue is related to character set.

My database character set is 'latin1'.

Note: ignore syntax errors

Answer 1

I'd suggest using the escape sequence for the character, for the character you gave it'll be \ô. If you want to find escape codes for other characters you can use https://www.rapidtables.com/code/text/unicode-characters.html .