Searching for special characters with sunspot, solr and tomcat

If you're going to search for special characters, such as æ ø å (Danish characters), you need to add UTF-8 encoding to your tomcat config file, as described here: http://e-mats.org/2008/04/solving-utf-8-problems-with-solr-and-tomcat/ and here: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrTomcat#URI_Charset_Config