question marks instead of arab letters

Question

All the english pages work well. Only Arabic pages show the problem.

All pages contain <meta charset="utf-8">

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��á �ä ��Ç ��Á ��ä ��ä ��á �å �Ç ��ã ��Ê �ì ��ã ��ì ��Ê ��å ��Á ��É ��Ç ��ä �ì ��ì ��Ç ��á ��ß ��ä ��ä ��á �å ��ß �Ï ��Ì ��É ��É ��á ��É ��Þ ��Ç ��Ñ ��á ��ì ��Ç ��å ��Á ��Ç .

When I am entering from the browser there is no problem but the problem is when enter from Google search

example:http://www.dreams-image.com/amp.php?t=71657

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 26 '17 at 19:38

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Your document is not using a UTF-8 character encoding. Your server is responding with a windows-1256 encoding, but UTF-8 is required.

answered Jun 26 '17 at 19:38

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That's right, my database is not UTF-8 But it is difficult to convert all database to UTF-8 . Is there a solution without converting the database? . and Why there is no problem when entering from the browser and not from Google search? . – Mustafa alqaisi Jun 26 '17 at 23:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '17 at 15:17

In addition to @Gregable's answer, none of the encoding settings in your bullet list will actually modify your output in any way; all they do is tell the browser what encoding to assume when interpreting what you send. From this post, you're getting those �s because you're telling the browser that what you're sending is UTF-8, but it's really windows-1256. Additional reference which might help: Question mark characters displaying within text, why is this?

question marks instead of arab letters

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