title: Not able to convert arabic characters encoded in latin1 to utf8
body: <p>I have a MySQL table with arabic strings. But the table character set is <code>latin1</code>. I want to convert the same to <code>utf8</code> so that the table can be displayed properly. </p>
  
  <p>I have gone through this: <a href="http://www.bothernomore.com/2008/12/16/character-encoding-hell/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.bothernomore.com/2008/12/16/character-encoding-hell/</a></p>
  
  <p>But it did not work for arabic characters. I have also see a post here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17193392/latin1-to-utf8-conversion">Latin1 to UTF8 conversion</a> the comment says:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>latin1 doesn't have support for Arabic characters. How can your text
    be stored as latin1?</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>does it mean that i cannot convert it to any characterset which could display the arabic characters. </p>