String encoding

Hi,

I'm sending a few strings to the DB through a JDBC PreparedStatement, and it looks like it's sending them to the DB using a wrong character encoding. It's connecting to an Oracle i9 DB.

Wondering, is there anyway to conifigure what encoding the driver uses in communictating to the DB? Is there any where I could do some more research on character encoding and JDBC drivers in general? I'm totally new to the subject, so excuse the ignorance.

thanks,

J

[491 byte] By [justinlawlera] at [2007-11-27 4:26:41]