Re: [PHP-DB] Arabic characters displayed as garbage !!

2004-10-04 Thread Dre
Thanks I will take a look at it BR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > By default, MySQL uses the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) character set. I guess you > need to set this parameter to something suitable for Arabic (if it is > supported by MySQL). I suggest you read "The Chara

Re: [PHP-DB] Arabic characters displayed as garbage !!

2004-10-03 Thread Dre
yes I did .. and the problem only happens for arabic text stored in database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 char

[PHP-DB] Arabic characters displayed as garbage !!

2004-10-03 Thread Dre
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),