ColdFusion - Inserting arabic/persian characters to mysql

Question

I insert my data into mysql db with this code:

Answer 1

(From comments ...)

Check the charset of your column or table. Make sure it supports unicode characters. For example, UTF-8:

CREATE TABLE ( name varchar(500) CHARSET UTF8, ....)

Also, instead of using N'literal' syntax, you may as well use the new cfsqltype cf_sql_nvarchar. With those changes, it should work fine.

    INSERT INTO ad ( name )  
    VALUES 
    (
        
       
    )

Side note - Nothing to do with your question, but cfprocessingdirective has no effect here. It is used when you need to embed, or hard code, Unicode characters within a CF script. Since you are not doing that, you do not need it.