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 > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php