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Asked: 2026-05-16T12:14:53+00:00

I have two tables here – one is in UTF and holds Arabic text

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I have two tables here – one is in UTF and holds Arabic text as it can be read. The other one has a different encoding however and the content is Arabic however in the database its displayed as 

ÈöÓúãö Çááøåö ÇáÑøóÍúãóäö ÇáÑøóÍöíãö

I have to show data from both tables on the same page – the page is UTF encoded however I’m not sure if this can be done or if its possible. What do i do? My database is mysql and I’m using php.

Is it possible to convert the encoding of the contents of the other table into UTF8 btw?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You have to use mb_convert_encoding() first, on everything, to make sure it’s all in UTF-8 to begin with. https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-convert-encoding.php Then it should display, assuming your HTML’s charset is UTF-8 and the users have the appropriate fonts installed.

    Also, virtually all consoles and a great many free online SQL commanders (like PHPMyAdmin) are not UTF-8 aware and print out jibberish. I have not yet found a free SSH client that supports UTF-8; if it’s a big deal, invest in SecureCRT.

    EDIT:
    Excuse me. I don’t read Arabic at all, but I did get Arabic back. please tell me if this is the correct text, and if so, accept this answer ;_)

    ب?س?ك? افف?م? افر??ح?ك?ل? افر??ح?ٍك?

    The code I used to get this was:
    header(‘Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8’);
    echo mb_convert_encoding(‘ÈöÓúãö Çááøåö ÇáÑøóÍúãóäö ÇáÑøóÍöíãö’, ‘utf-8’, ‘iso-8859-6’);

    I found the Arabic encoding via this page: http://a4esl.org/c/charset.html

    Cheers!

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