JDBC locale help needed URGENT

Hello,

If someone could please point me to some information on how to get
accentuated caracteres out of a database with JDBC I would be most
greatfull.

Do I just bang in aLocale = new Locale("fr", "FR");

at the top of my query page?

Cheers

Tony Grant

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