Channel descriptions are not being properly encoded to preserve the original input

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Set up a JaikuEngine instance
2. Create a channel and add a description that uses Cyrillic characters
like this: http://www.jaiku.com/channel/ruscm
3. View the channel's description and note that the descriptions are now
full of ?? characters.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The encoding of the characters input should be preserved in the output

Please use labels and text to provide additional information.
encoding

Original issue reported on code.google.com by adewale on 13 Mar 2009 at 4:42

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Is this actually occurring on new channels? Imported channels from legacy data 
on jaiku.com definitely have this 
problem, but I believe that to be an import related problem

Original comment by andyster on 18 Mar 2009 at 12:04

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I can confirm it's not happening on newly created channels. See
http://www.jaiku.com/channel/testcyrilliccharacters

It's sad that the Jaiku team didn't prevent such bugs during import. Should 
users
correct description fields of their channels manually?

Original comment by andrey.vlasovskikh on 18 Mar 2009 at 9:29

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We got most of those types of bugs during import, sad that we missed this one, 
looking into a way to update all 
the affected channels, though just updating the description manually will do it.

Original comment by andyster on 18 Mar 2009 at 11:11

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