Mysql data conversion issue

[Himz Ar]

Hi,

Through a java application, I'm trying to migrate some data (which contains special and international characters) to Mysql db 5.0.45.

I'm using jre1.5.0_09
and my mysql connector is 5.0.5

Problem is when i'm tryingto save data with special characters to a longtext field it starts giving following error

Incorrect string value: '\xE2?oSum...' for column 'DETAILS' at row 1
at com.sapient.resultspace.service.ResultSpaceProjectServiceBase.saveProject(ResultSpaceProjectServiceBase.java:256)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:287)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:181)

Will using a newer version of mysql connector resolve this issue??