Hi,
my application is almost complete but i've run into a problem and it would be very much appreciated if someone could give me a solution for it.

I'm doing an asp.net web application using c# as the language for the code behind.
The problem is that when I insert a new row into the database from my application, multilingual text, like Japanese characters, is displayed as question marks like this ????.
However, when I insert something directly from the Administrator software, everything is displayed correctly.

the charset in the database is UTF-8 Unicode (utf8), and the collation is uftf8_general_ci which should technically display anykind of characters.

Thank you