UTF-8 encoding for POST/GET parameters, and for communicating with MySQL

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This doesn't work. 

Some links:

http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/CharacterEncoding#Q1

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/index.html?java/net/URLEncoder.html

http://split-s.blogspot.com/2005/12/internationalized-get-parameters-with.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1365806/why-the-character-is-corrupted-when-u
se-request-getparameter-in-java

Someone care to do this. Perhaps I should do it, as I've been trying to fix
it for a couple of hours, but it is SOOOOOOOOO boring.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tgwizard on 11 Apr 2010 at 1:13