How to display arabic characters in web page using php and sql server

Question

How can I display Arabic characters in web page using php and sql server? The Arabic data is stored in the database (sql server). Now I want to use php to display that data on t

Answer 1

The official solution for Unicode in mssql with php

$serverName = "MyServer";
$connectionInfo = array( "Database"=>"AdventureWorks", "CharacterSet" => "UTF-8");
$conn = sqlsrv_connect( $serverName, $connectionInfo);

use this in your connection code,
get more support on utf 8 issue on
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc626307.aspx