Downloading Farsi via ASP

[Rick Good]

I have a utf8 character set database storing English and Farsi characters. When displayed via a web browser and through MySQL queries in the MySQL shell all characters are displayed properly. However, when retrieving data via ASP all of the non-English characters come out as question marks, e.g., "?". I have:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

in the header and:

"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"; dir="rtl" lang="fa">

before the header.

I also have

<p dir="rtl" lang="fa"> </p>

around the Farsi string downloaded.

(I would put this under "General - Language", but it does not exist. Smile.)

Thanks to all.

Rick