Encoding from CopyManager.copyIn()

Hello,

I'm using the copyIn() function of the CopyManager. It works fine until I don't use an "umlaut" like ü. Then i get an PSQLException:

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xfc

My code looks like follows:

ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(output);
writer.println("abcüäö");
writer.flush();
ByteArrayInputStream input = new ByteArrayInputStream(output.toByteArray());
long result = ((PGConnection) con_).getCopyAPI().copyIn(statement, input);

After searching at google i found out that this is an encoding problem. The database doesn't know what charset I'm using.

Any suggestion how i can specify the encoding i want to use?

BR, Markus