title: php page not displaying arabic text
body: <p>I have a PHP page where I am trying to display Arabic text but its showing.</p>
  
  <p>In MySQL database I'm storing arabic text successfully. </p>
  
  <p>I'm using the following code to connect to the database :</p>
  
  <pre><code>function connect(){
  $this-&gt;dbLink = mysql_connect($this-&gt;dbHost,$this-&gt;dbUser,$this-&gt;dbPass);   
  if(!$this-&gt;dbLink) die("Could not connect to database. " . mysql_error());
  mysql_select_db($this-&gt;dbName);
  mysql_set_charset("utf8", $this-&gt;dbLink); 
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And using the following header in the PHP page :</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But still no success.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for helping.</p>