Problem With Euro character

Hello

I'm working on a french web application (Spring+Ibatis+Postgre).
My PostgreSql version : 8.1
My db encoding is UTF-8.
My JDBc Driver version is 8.1-405-jdbc3

There is no problem to display the Euro (€) character in HTML pages, but in the PDF this caracter disepear !!!
Strange...

I've done a little test, this is the recuperation of a String "€ € € € € Euro € Euro € € € €" :

log.info(c.getObservation());
log.info(new String (c.getObservation().getBytes("UTF-8")));
log.info(new String (c.getObservation().getBytes("ISO-8859-1")));

INFO  17:49:10.468 ? ? ? ? ? Euro ? Euro ? ? ? ?  (TestEuro.java:14)
INFO  17:49:10.468 € € € € € Euro € Euro € € € €  (TestEuro.java:15)
INFO  17:49:10.468 € € € € € Euro € Euro € € € €  (TestEuro.java:16)

Very strange, it seems that my observation have an encoding ISO-8859-1 in my db UTF-8...

if you have any idea...

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