unknown initial character set
hi to all...
i'm using xampp for windows with tomcat add-on... jsp files and servlets compiling just fine but i always get exception error when trying to access mysql database...
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unknown initial character set index '48' received from server. Initial client character set can be forced via the 'characterEncoding' property.
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:512)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:377)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
dont know where the problem comes from...
plz help, really urgent

