GeoServer – Handling Non-English Characters in CQL Filter

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I have a shapefile loaded in GeoServer 2.8 and accessed by OpenLayers 2.13. This layer is in UTF-8 encoding and has some english and non-english records.
When i use english fields in cql-filter – as follows, but no differnce between WMS and WFS request- GeoServer filters data very well and returns the result. 

layer1 = new ol.layer.Image({
            title: 'Ostan',
            source: new ol.source.ImageWMS({
                url: 'http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wms',
                params: {
                    LAYERS: 'ws:layer1',
                    VERSION: '1.1.1',
                    CQL_FILTER: "NAME_ENG = 'sommy'"
                }
            })
        });

But if i try to use a field which contains non-english data in cql-filter, GeoServer returns no data. My webpage has following meta, as well: 

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type" />

When i check geoserver log, i see some messy characters instead of my non-english string in cql-filter.

Best Answer

So Answer is (All credit goes to to Ben Caradoc-Davies and GeoServer mailing list. Thanks them):
Adding URIEncoding="UTF-8" or useBodyEncodingForURI ="true" to server.xml was the right solution for Tomcat 7. Also, upgrading to Tomcat 8 solves everything without a need to add above codes.
According to this link, "In Tomcat 8 starting with 8.0.0 (8.0.0-RC3, to be specific), default value (strict compliance is off) of URIEncoding is now UTF-8."

Lesson to be learned: As a end-user, always use some recent versions but not exactly latest one. I had another experience of problem with Tomcat some time ago. After searching a lot, I understood that it is because of some new feature in Tomcat, and so, there is no document for problem available or a solution.

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