UTF8 support for student names

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set the student first or last name like "Matevž"
2. The non-latin characters are changed to "?".
3. My name becomes "Matev?"

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Matevž

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
http://marmoset-demo.cs.umd.edu:8080

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by matevz.j...@gmail.com on 20 Feb 2012 at 7:55