title: PHP get Arabic Content from SQL SERVER
body: <p>How can I get Arabic content when I run <code>MSSQL_QUERY</code>?</p>
  
  <p>It appears as <code>????</code>, I tried to do this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$res = mssql_query($q);
  $row = mssql_fetch_row($res)
  echo iconv("unicode", "utf-8", $row[0])
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but in this case it shows the value as Chinese letters as <code>潬穬</code></p>
  
  <p>any suggestion is highly appreciated </p>