英语/阿拉伯语编码问题

Question

I am designing a web page this web page should support

English and Arabic languages

my problem is : Arabic characters doesn't appear in its way

it appears some thing like that "أهلاً يا معلم "

I have tried to change the encoding of this page with the following tag

<META CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1256" HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type">

but it didn't work and I tried the "utf-8" but it doesn't work either?

thanks for reading my question

Answer 1

You need to change more than that : ideally, everything should be set to, or encoded in, UTF-8 :

• the source code of your scripts / pages
  • configuring your IDE / editor to encode in UTF-8 by default might be a good idea, here
• the data in your database -- if you are using one
  • the connection between PHP and your DB
• the meta tag, like you did -- eventually ; not sure it's that usefull, actually
• the HTTP Content-type header (see point 14.17 or the RFC, for instance)
• well, everything.

For the last part, this should do the trick, in PHP :

header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

(You might need to adjust it, depending on your... content-type ^^ )