Dsiplaying Hebrew strings using the ZendFramework

Question

I am doing the ZF quickStart (my first steps in PHP) and i want to read and display Hebrew strings in my web view. how do i change the charset in my db adapter?

Here is my current application.ini db setting:

resources.db.adapter = "PDO_MYSQL"
resources.db.params.host = localhost
resources.db.params.username = xxxx
resources.db.params.password = xxxx
resources.db.params.dbname = xxxx
resources.db.params.charset = "hebrew"
resources.db.params.driver_options.1002 = "SET NAMES hebrew"