html - Datalist displaying arabic text as squares

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My offline web application works correctly and displays arabic text without any errors .. except in datalists it displays arabic text as squares p.s: this problem is only in chrome .. other browser not showing squares i'm using this codes for utf-8 encoding:

header('Content-Type:text/html; charset=Windows-1256\n\n');

and for html:<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Make sure DB is UTF-8. IDE opens files as UTF-8. Meta tags (you have ok). Just UTF-8 ALL THE THINGS! — delboy1978uk, Nov 04 '19 at 10:50
@delboy1978uk my DB encoding is utf-8 but the problem showing even if datalist options is not from DB — MOaaz Al Habbal, Nov 04 '19 at 11:11
@delboy1978uk thank you but didn't work..the problem is only with chrome .. other browsers showing correctly — MOaaz Al Habbal, Nov 04 '19 at 16:41
Where is the Arabic text coming from/defined? DB? Translations files? — delboy1978uk, Nov 04 '19 at 16:45
Also look here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31897407/mysql-and-php-utf-8-with-cyrillic-characters/31899827#31899827 — delboy1978uk, Nov 04 '19 at 16:46

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 23 '21 at 14:13

Is a bit late but it may help some one else

for Arabic you should use

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1256">

not

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

alongside with

header('Content-Type:text/html; charset=Windows-1256\n\n');

if you are PHP for other language like .NET there is an equivalent way to set the header

anyway try to use UTF-8 in your new and upcoming project

html - Datalist displaying arabic text as squares

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