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SimonBarker
SimonBarker

Reputation: 1424

Codeigniter arabic changing to '????'

I have a small web-app/utility built with Codeigniter that seems to have become quiet popular in Arabic speaking countries - currently however all Arabic writing is converted to question marks - how do I go about supporting Arabic? Data is inputted by the user which is then retrieved from a database for future display.

The data inputted by the user is stored and retrieved from a MYSQL database and jQuery is used to handle Ajax calls if that makes any difference.

Is this a PHP/Codeigniter issue or a MYSQl one? (or both?)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2427

Answers (1)

Varun Sheth
Varun Sheth

Reputation: 156

Do you have a UTF-8 encoding meta tag while displaying content in arabic ?

 <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Also please check here

http://osamaahmedattia.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/arabic-languages-in-codeigniter/

Upvotes: 2

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