Go4Expert - POST method and JSP

Okay I know this term has been raped by all the noobs and I suppose I am one of them. Nothing I searched seems to help me.
I have a problem passing non-English(Hebrew) text using POST method.

my HTML page:

Code:

<html>

<head>

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

</head>

<body>

    <form ACTION="table.jsp" METHOD="POST">

        Data:<input type="text" name="data" size="25">

        <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Submit">

    </form>

</body>

</html>



my JSP page(table.jsp):



<html>

<head>

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

</head>

<body>

<%



    request.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");

    response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");



    String data = request.getParameter("data");

    out.print("before: " + data);

%>

</body>

</html>

the 'out.prinln' prints giberish and I am desperate!
Thanks for the help!