Forums / Install & configuration / problem with arabic charset of DB
John Mina
Thursday 17 August 2006 6:08:14 am
hello, I have a running site on a server with rabic language db. I am in the process in moving the site to another Server , the current "Charset Collation" on the old website is : latin_swedish_ci and most of the tables charsets are utf8_general_ci
What do you think ? how to move the DB what charsets shuld i use ?:(
please helpthanks
Softriva .com
Thursday 17 August 2006 2:23:02 pm
For Arabic I think you need to use utf8.
I am not sure what do you mean by most of the tables are in utf8. Up to my knowledge Arabic fonts won't work in latin_swedish_ci.
Finally, you can do some experiment, ie use phpmyadmin and export your old tables to an .sql file. If you have a local server try importing your exported file to it and check to see if all your chars are ok.
I hope that I put you in the right track.
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