arabic character encoding problem

**raj_2006** · 03-07-2010 03:35 AM

Hi,

While showing a page title in arabic it shows as small square boxes and when i am minimising the browser it shows the correct one.

The html view source code display the right one....but in the browser it shows as small boxes in firefox.

my html header code

HTML Code:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE><?php echo  SITENAMETITLE; ?></TITLE>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=windows-1256">
.........................
......................

Please where i am doing wrong.

Thanks,
Raj

**Webnerd** · 03-07-2010 11:36 AM

How about utf-8? Are you entering content in utf-8? That may be the problem. Invalid byte sequences. Change to utf-8.

**raj_2006** · 03-07-2010 11:46 AM

I changed but not working...u know when i am minimising the browser it shows the arabic content in the toolbar but when i am opening it shows small boxes as page title...strange

**Robert Wellock** · 03-10-2010 06:29 AM

It depends upon what "HTTP headers" your Server is sending too. Remember the information within the TITLE isn't displayed within the page itself. What is the PHP set to send?

Furthermore you have to make sure you have the correct fonts and language packs installed. Arabic (ISO 8859-6) is a right to left language and sometimes the fonts aren't always fully/correctly UTF supported, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_Unicode

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