You must set Request and Response encoding for your page/application to support UTF. Also, make sure that the datatype for the coulmn that store the data must be NVARCHAR(in case you are using MS-SQL Server). To set page level encoding add:
<![CDATA[<%@ Page ResponseEncoding="utf-8" RequestEncoding="utf-8"%>]]>
at the top of your page. And to set application level encoding add:
<configuration>
<system.web>
<globalization
requestEncoding="utf-8"
responseEncoding="utf-8"
/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
in your web.config file. Hope it helps.