SELECT Query Involving Non-English Characters

Hello friends,

I am inserting non-english strings into my database table from my java program.



Code Snippet
sql = "insert into static_string1 values (?)";
PreparedStatement statement=connection.prepareStatement(sql);
statement.setString(1,statString);




where, statString is a string variable containing Hebrew characters.

Till here, my code works fine. i.e, Hebrew characters are properly inserted to the database.
The problem is when I try to retrieve the String_Id based upon the statString I inserted to the table static_string1.




Code Snippet
String sql = "select String_Id from Static_String1 where String like ('" + statString +"')";
Statement statement=connection.createStatement();
ResultSet rs=statement.executeQuery(sql);
rs.next();
int stringId=rs.getInt("String_Id");


I tried hardcoding the string in the query and to execute it from the SQL Server Management Studio as below



Code Snippetselect String_Id from Static_String1 where String like( ' ×”×–×—' );



But even this is returning null rows, even though the entry is present in the table Please help me out asap.


Please pardon me if this is not the right section to post my doubt. I didnt find any other relevant section here.