Successful arabic from GWT client form into MySQL

I could not find a good recipe for inserting Arabic entered on a GWT
page into a text field to be inserted into MySQL as anything other
than "?????????". Here is a simplified example

CLIENT:

private RichTextArea arabicNameField = new RichTextArea();
//First thing we discovered is this only reliably works in a
RichTextArea, a TextBox does not seem to work for arabic

myService.insertText(arabicName, new AsyncCallback<Void>() {
public void onFailure(Throwable caught) {
System.out.println(caught.getMessage());
}

// we don't do anything here for saving
public void onSuccess(Void result) {
return;
}
});

SERVER:
//The Key is in the UTF encoding and getting the bytes rather than
the text
String queryString = "insert into names (arabicname) values (?)";

mySqlStatement = con.prepareStatement(queryString);

try {
mySqlStatement.setBytes(1, arabicName.getBytes("UTF-8"));
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
mySqlStatement.setString(1, "Unable to Encode Name");
}

mySqlStatement.executeUpdate();
mySqlStatement.close();
con.close();

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