displaying Arabic text using PHP

**basrah_university68** · 12-04-2010 12:07 PM

Hi,

I am trying to use Arabic text using PHP. for some reasone I get ????? ????? displayed.

Displyaing text using HRML files works fine.

I save the file as utf-8.

For example, the test file below only displays ????

"<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">";

<HTML lang="AR-IQ" dir=rtl charset=UTF-8>
<HEAD>";
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="ar-kw">
<TITLE>My Website</TITLE>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<?
echo "</HEAD>";
echo "<BODY>";
echo "";

echo " ننتا وءةؤىروءؤ رمنسيب ";

echo "</BODY>";
echo " </HTML>";
?>

**wazam199419** · 12-04-2010 12:12 PM

You could use something like this?

PHP Code:


<?php

echo <<<EOF
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>TITLE HERE</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Put what ever here.</p>
</body>
</html>
EOF;
?>

Also try changing the language via CPanel.

**descalzo** · 12-04-2010 12:28 PM

1. Don't use the short tags <? ?>. Use the full tags <?php ?>

2. Remove the quotes and semicolon from the first line and others that are outside the php tags
"<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">";

3. Close the span tag <span lang='ar-kw'

4. Make sure save the file with utf-8 encoding. You might be saving it with another coding.

5. http://badges.x10.bz/arabic.php shows that it can work.

**wazam199419** · 12-04-2010 01:03 PM

There's nothing wrong using short tags. It doesn't effect the file at all.

**descalzo** · 12-04-2010 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by wazam199419

There's nothing wrong using short tags. It doesn't effect the file at all.

While it isn't a problem in this case, their use is deprecated and some setups they are turned off. Using the full tags is just a good habit to get into.

**basrah_university68** · 12-04-2010 03:23 PM

Thanks you all for your answers.

I updated the code to:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<HTML lang="AR-IQ" dir=rtl charset=UTF-8>
<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="ar-kw">
<TITLE>My Website</TITLE>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php

echo " ننتا وءةؤىروءؤ رمنسيب ";

?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

THis is saved as utf-8.

still the browser display ??????

when I remove the PHP section and pust instead of that ننتا وءةؤىروءؤ رمنسيب then save the file as HTML. then it displays the text correctly.

I do dnot have this kind of problem on other free webhosting. The only think I did not like there was they add alot of adds to my page.

**descalzo** · 12-04-2010 05:26 PM

Did you click on the link I posted?

That page is hosted on x10hosting. So it is not the server or the hostings fault.

Again, go to cPanel-->File Manager.
Create a new file.
Open it in the regular Editor.
Change the encoding to utf-8 and click on 'open'
Code the page
Save
View.

**basrah_university68** · 12-04-2010 07:55 PM

Thanks Descalzo,

I followed your instructions. I deleted the file on the server.

This time I used cPanel to create a new file, then copy and pasted the contnt from the file I had on my PC to the file in File Manager. Save it as utf-8. It worked.

I don't understand why this needs to be done using cPanel. Usually I create the file on my PC, then use a FTP program to uopload the file.

Now I know how to do this work on this site.

Thanks

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