Can't Enter Chinese Characters

I have tried to follow instructions online as well as other threads in this forum, so far to no avail. I am using JSP, Java 1.4, MySQL 4.1 and Tomcat 5.5 on Windows XP.
1) I have set my JSPs to use UTF-8 wherever possible. I have a form where I can enter Chinese characters into a form, which hits a servlet, but text always arrives to the servlet garbled.
2) When I try to directly do an INSERT to a column and insert a chinese character, it comes up as ??? mySQL Query browser says "Data truncated to column 'translation' at row 1' ErrorNumber 1265.
3) I have made sure that each table's encoding is UTF-8.
Not sure what else to do. I can't find any easy instructions to do this. If you know of one,