how to pass french character through string to the Database?

when i am passing french characters to the database or to eny other page i am not getting the actual value.

[114 byte] By [bibhuti_82a] at [2007-11-27 11:52:55]
# 1

So somewhere between acquiring and checking you messed up the encodings.

CeciNEstPasUnProgrammeura at 2007-7-29 18:47:21 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...
# 2

or the database messes things up by not storing the data in the proper character set.

jwentinga at 2007-7-29 18:47:21 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...