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character encoding - How to convert an entire MySQL database characterset and collation to UTF-8? - Stack Overflow
Tekitchen - If your database Character-set is latin1 and collation is latin1_general_ci then your Arabic data is stored like this in your database '????????' as we explain in the previous post .
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