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Asked: 2026-06-18T09:09:33+00:00

Maybe it is too broad question for stackoverflow, however, I will ask it: With

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Maybe it is too broad question for stackoverflow, however, I will ask it:

With which issues you should be able to deal with when working with such languages as Arabic and similar languages? Can you give me some list of them?

I have recently started a project in Sindhi. I do not speak arabic, sindhi or similar language, I am writing “left to right”. However, I have a project for sindhi users. And I would like to know which issues I should deal with when creating this project.

So, basicly using my system users can add some articles in sindhi, upload pictures etc. I need to create/edit/delete those things from MySQL database and fetch all data. For now, I do not need some searching in text or similar things, just simple CRUD operations.

1) I understand that this is rtl language and I need to use dir=”rtl” in HTML.

2) For those class of languages, it should be necessary to use UTF-8 encoding and ut8_general_ci collation in database.

3) When quering data with PHP, you should use mysql_query(“SET NAMES ‘utf8’ “);

4) Are there any other special issues to deal with when using CRUD operations in mysql?
I have found out that there could be problems with text search in mysql. I have found http://www.ar-php.org/en_index-php-arabic.html website about special set of classes for arabic in php, however, I need only CRUD operations for now, do I really need some special classes or I can work like in “english based” PHP / MySQL?

What else do you suggest?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Nothing else in MYSQL except that you cant use full text search.

    In PHP you need to use mb_string functions for doing any operation on texts.

    http://php.net/manual/en/book.mbstring.php

    There is no problem with CRUD too.

    I am Iranian and my language is Persian which is similar to Arabic in writing and I can confirm that you don’t need any thing special. 🙂

    *Edit: Forgot to say, You need to use this meta tag in your html:

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

    Also dont forget to save your php and html files in utf8, but you can use this tool in case you cant do that somewhere:
    http://www.mikezilla.com/exp0012.html

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