The problem with UTF-8 in creating a sleep mode circuit
this is my hibernate.hbm.xml and I use MySQL
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dbName?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">******</property>
<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.useUnicode">true</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.characterEncoding">UTF-8</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>
<property name="format_sql">true</property>
<property name="hibernate.use_sql_comments">true</property>
<property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>
<!-- configuration pool via c3p0-->
<property name="c3p0.acquire_increment">1</property>
<property name="c3p0.idle_test_period">100</property> <!-- seconds -->
<property name="c3p0.max_size">100</property>
<property name="c3p0.max_statements">0</property>
<property name="c3p0.min_size">10</property>
<property name="c3p0.timeout">100</property> <!-- seconds -->
<!-- DEPRECATED very expensive property name="c3p0.validate>-->
</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>
When I run my program for the first time, it creates a table in the database, but my problem is that Charset is still latin1_swedish_ci (latin) and not utf8, what do I need to change in hibernate.hbm.xml settings?