Infos goes to DB as '#%#^!'

hey all,

i’ve recently rebuilt my website but i have problems uploading infos in hebrew to the DB, any hebrew letter gets uploaded as @^#^%, whereas in the old website it worked fine.

however i did not make any change to the uploading proccess itself, and the only things that might cause the problem are that i added a doctype of strict and changed my content type from windows-1255 to utf-8, altho i’ve tried removing those 2 lines (just to check if thats what causing the problem) and the problem was still there, altho pulling infos from the database to the website in hebrew is not a problem, so what can cause this? any hints?

note: english letters gets uploaded just fine.

thanks in advance

What Collation is the table set to and are you setting the connection to the db to use utf-8