Problem with UTF-8 input in forms on Glassfish

["Vangel V. Ajanovski" <aj...@ii.edu.mk>]

Hello everyone, this is my first email on this list.
I'd like to introduce myself first, I am coordinating (and 
co-developing) a project for a Student information system at the 
Institute of Informatics in Skopje, Macedonia (a CS department at the 
Saints Cyril and Methodius University) .

While we have had no issues when testing under Jetty (started as a maven 
plugin), there are problems when deployed as a WAR in Glassfish.
Cyrillic (or any UTF-8) input from forms is saved as garbage to the 
database.

I have already tried: 
http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/Tapestry5Utf8Encoding (although it 
should not be needed), with no success.

Any suggestions would be welcome because the intention was to host the 
application under Glassfish or Tomcat.
We have another issue with Tomcat, but since it's another topic - more 
on that in another message :)