why I can't show arabic language on HTML

Question

I have a website and this is the meta in the head tag

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

but all arabic text shows like in the picture..

Unicode problem

but when I change the browser unicode to arabic it shows correctly, but I have to to it every refresh so it is not a solution at all.

Those question marks are a sign of invalid characters. You need to make sure the content you paste into the page is UTF-8 as well. — Pekka, Sep 22 '13 at 17:43
I'm storing those texts in php variables like this: $name = 'محمد'; — medo ampir, Sep 22 '13 at 17:45
Your PHP files are not encoded in UTF-8. Save them in UTF-8. — Joni, Sep 22 '13 at 17:46
oh how stupid this is, saving the file in utf-8 is the last in my mind, and the funny thing is... this was the problem... thanks guys. :) — medo ampir, Sep 22 '13 at 17:49

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 19 '13 at 19:04

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For solve that problem, You only have to save all your PHP files in UTF-8 too...

Check that! :P

A only meta charset in UTf-8 doesn't works... Rembember it forever :P It happens to me every time.. :P

If you use Sublime Text, you can save it like that:

Save with UTf-8 Encoding

if you not, I recommend you you to use sublime text: http://www.sublimetext.com/ it will give you some life years.. xD

edited Oct 19 '13 at 19:04

ElektroStudios

answered Sep 22 '13 at 17:46

Seazoux

thanks very much but you solved it too early, I need 9 minutes to choose it as correct answer :) – medo ampir Sep 22 '13 at 17:49

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