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Asked: 2026-05-14T03:56:18+00:00

I inserted data in a MySQL database which includes Arabic script. While the output

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I inserted data in a MySQL database which includes Arabic script. While the output displays Arabic correctly, the data in MySQL looks like garbage. Something like this:

 'صَومُ ثَلاثَةِ أيّامٍ مِن كُلِّ شَهرٍ ـ أربَعاءُ بَينَ خَ

Should I be worried about this? If yes, how do I make it appear in proper Arabic script in MySQL?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Those are HTML entities.

    If this text

    صَومُ ثَلاثَةِ أيّامٍ مِن كُلِّ شَهرٍ ـ أربَعاءُ بَينَ خَ

    is what is supposed to be in your database, everything’s most likely fine: Your arabic input gets converted into those entities at some point along the way.

    To view the actual arabic characters like above, insert them into a text file, name it something.htm and open it in your browser.

    You could also convert it into “proper” native characters in a UTF-8 encoded mySQL table, but for you to get any pointers how to do that you would have to tell us what languages/platforms you are working with.

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