Taglibs Chinese

[Michael McGrady]

I am trying to use the image tags from Commons sandbox taglibs.  I am 
trying to use them with Chinese.  The Western European languages work fine 
with them, but the same thing does not work with Chinese.  I am doing the 
following, in essence:

// Welcome in Chinese
String original = new String("\u6b22\u8fce");
and
// "Welcome" in Chinese
String original = new String("\u6b22\u8fce");
byte[] utf8Bytes = original.getBytes("UTF8");
original = new String(utf8Bytes,"UTF8");
Neither works.  I just get the proverbial square boxes on the resultant 
images.  Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks, Michael