hi

i have a big problem i can not change the encoding of this textarea please help me , when i type arabic words in text box the php page show it correctly but when i type arabic word in textarea of the same form it show it like this سبسبسبب

please help me

Hi bezi,

 

This is a common problem and is probably due to mixing character sets and encodings.

 

For international compatibility, I prefer to use the Unicode character set, with the UTF-8 encoding.

 

You should read this excellent post carefully:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

 

If you don't understand it, please go back and read it again! It took me a couple of times to get it myself.

 

To make your project work, you need to ensure everything is using the same charset and encoding.

 

This post helps with that:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/...code/index.html

 

(Particularly the 'Programming considerations' section).

 

I hope this solves your problem.