storing and retrieving different language characters in Postgres and JSP

How to store and retrieve data stored in diff开发者_JAVA百科erent languages (Could be Chinese, Hindi, French or any other which has peculiar characters in it).

• Create the database in PostgreSQL using UTF-8 as the character set
• Make sure all your web pages are encoded using UTF-8 (See this link for examples), this is mainly done using something like <meta charset="UTF-8"> in your JSP pages
• Make sure all your HTML forms have an accept-charset="UTF-8" attribute
• Make sure that all your servlet container/application container sends and receives the data properly in UTF-8