The output of Show variables goes like this. I have verified with the hex values and they are different in MySQL and Solr.
| Variable_name | Value | +--------------------------+----------------------------+ | character_set_client | latin1 | | character_set_connection | latin1 | | character_set_database | latin1 | | character_set_filesystem | binary | | character_set_results | latin1 | | character_set_server | latin1 | | character_set_system | utf8 | | character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ *Pranav Prakash* "temet nosce" On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Gora Mohanty <g...@mimirtech.com> wrote: > On 21 September 2012 11:19, Pranav Prakash <pra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am seeing the garbage text in browser, Luke Index Toolbox and > everywhere > > it is the same. My servlet container is Jetty which is the out-of-box > one. > > Many other special chars are getting indexed and stored properly, only > few > > characters causes pain. > > > > Could you double-check the encoding on the mysql side? > What is the output of > > mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character\_set\_%'; > > Regards, > Gora >