Save Data in Arabic in MySQL database

Question

I have changed the charset of the tables and of the column, i get the arabic text as ???? marks in MYSQL database

here is the design of the table

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Answer 1

We can convert database or db table to uft8 supportive with below query:

ALTER DATABASE dbname CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

ALTER TABLE tablename CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

ALTER TABLE columnname DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci

Hope it helps !

Read More @

https://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/138/Default+MySQL+character+set+and+collation#gs

http://hollyslog.com/technology/how-to-store-arabic-or-hebrew-characters-mysql-database