Application: gvSIG desktop

import java.sql.ResultSet;

        // ATENTION: We will transform (in PostGIS class; doubleQuote())

        // to UTF-8 strings. Then, we tell the PostgreSQL server

        // that we will use UTF-8, and it can translate

        // to its charset

        // Note: we have to translate to UTF-8 because

        // the server cannot manage UTF-16

        ResultSet rsAux;

		try {

			rsAux = st.executeQuery("SHOW server_encoding;");

	        rsAux.next();

	        String serverEncoding = rsAux.getString(1);

	        System.out.println("Server encoding = " + serverEncoding);

	        // st.execute("SET CLIENT_ENCODING TO 'UNICODE';");

	        // Intentamos convertir nuestras cadenas a ese encode.

	        PostGIS.toEncode = serverEncoding;

		} catch (SQLException e) {

			// TODO Auto-generated catch block

			e.printStackTrace();

		}