Re: Arabic characters displayed as garbage !!
| From: | Dre | Date: | Mon, 04 Oct 2004 00:14:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Arabic characters displayed as garbage !! | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.db |
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yes I did .. and the problem only happens for arabic text stored in database
<martin73@maxnet.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Did you set a character encoding on your page to Arabic? (eg. ISO-8859-6)
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm working on a website that needs to save and display Arabic
characters.
> > I'm using MySQL database and no matter how I insert the data either
using
> > phpMyAdmin or inserting it using a script of my own, when I try to show
> > (display) the data I previously saved (which contains Arabic
characters),
> > the output is rubbish and has no relation with the words I saved
> >
> > the script I'm using for displaying the data is as simple as the
following
> > one
> >
> > //===========================================================
> > <?php
> > include("db.php");
> > $result = mysql_query("select * from mem_applications");
> > if ($result)
> > {
> > while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
> > {
> > echo $row['first_name'];
> > echo "<br>";
> > echo $row['mid_name'];
> > echo "<br>";
> > echo $row['last_name'];
> > echo "<br>";
> > }
> > }
> > ?>
> > //===========================================================
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
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