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

CREATE TABLE mydb.categories         
(category_id tinyint(2) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT
,category_name MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL
,PRIMARY KEY (category_id)) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8