title: Starting a multilingual site in Laravel
body: <p>I'm about to create a multilingual site where English will be used for the public pages then Arabic for the Admin. I've never worked on this before and am unsure where to begin. Maybe those who've done multilingual sites before can answer a few questions for me.</p>
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  <li>Can English and Arabic be saved in the same table? If so, my collation has always been utf-8 Unicode, does that mean I can't use utf8 any more?</li>
  <li>Will the Arabic portions of my site need its own table? If so, what collation?</li>
  <li>In my Views, what do I type in replacement for <code>&lt;meta http-equiv=&quot;Content-Type&quot; content=&quot;text/html; charset=UTF-8&quot; /&gt;</code>?</li>
  <li>Is there anything I should know about starting a multilingual site?</li>
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  <p>I really am a bit lost on where to begin on this.</p>