title: Arabic language in php/mysql appears "????" question marks in html
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6859018/save-data-in-arabic-in-mysql-database">Save Data in Arabic in MySQL database</a>  </p>
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  <p>I have a problem with retrieving Arabic data from MYSQL database using PHP, it appears as question marks "????" in HTML:</p>
  
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  <li>I have a database with "utf8_general_ci" as collation.</li>
  <li>The database contains some data in Arabic Language.</li>
  <li>The HTML encoding is "UTF-8".</li>
  <li>When I tried to retrieve the data in HTML, it appears as "?????".</li>
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  <p>Please Help !!!</p>