hi all
just from the title some of you will say that it is not relevant to Hibernate
but wait.....

i was asked to rewrite a working application build on :

MySql--CMP--EJB--WEB to :

Mysql--Hibernate-EJB-web

as far as functionality hibernate works better and faster BUT

everything was fine till i used Hebrew Characters...
my Mysql (4.1) is set UTF-8 and the relevant tables ,the data shows correctly in the DB,
all the jsp's are also set to utf-8 , and trust me i checked every manipulation on the character encoding

all i get is gibberish ,

my post here is my last resort

I promise you that Hibernate won't mess with any kind of encoding.

Double check the configuration of your connection.