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According to this website, latin1 is this charset: ISO-8859-1
Supported Encodings

And my charset for my MySql DB is character_set_database latin1.

So. Whatever I did to make it UTF-8 didn't work. It was still latin1 coming out. Basically, characterEncoding=UTF-8 and String str = new String(stringBytes , "UTF-8"); didn't work.

So, I finally assumed that it was latin1 coming back all the time. Here's the code that converts it to UTF-8:

Code:

	private String convertStringFromLatin1ToUTF8(String stringForconversion) {
		try {
			String stringToConvert = stringForconversion;
			byte[] convertStringToByte = stringToConvert.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
			return new String(convertStringToByte, "UTF-8");
		} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
			System.out.println"convert String FAILED: " + stringForconversion + "<br/>");
			return stringForconversion;
		}
	}

Greetings.