yes I did .. and the problem only happens for arabic text stored in database <martin73@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:62223.202.14.141.254.1096843994.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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
