Hello, for my website http://www.valuatemywebsite.com i xant to add languge arabic, hebrew ,and persian but i have probelme with caracteers , i wraite my file infos_lang.php but when it loads i have noticed that i get ??? marks instead of googd caracters.

I note that i set googe paramters in html,
any help

You might want to use something like UTF-8 as your charset in all your files and database as that will work with almost any language.

you mean for database i will use utf8_bin , because i have multiple choice .
And in html i will use only charset=“utf8”  ??
i ask because in mysql whihc i can use utf8_bin or utf8_unicode ?

utf8_unicode_ci in mysql and html set charset to UTF-8 (not utf8). Remember to save the html documents(or view files) in utf-8 format too(without byte-order mark (BOM)), not just change the code.

When you create the database in MySQL using phpMyAdmin you did to go to the operations tab and change the collate to utf8_unicode.ci or else it will default to latin1.

Enjoy
InsiteFX

There is a nice post about UTF-8 in CodeIgniter:
http://philsturgeon.co.uk/news/2009/10/UTF-8-support-for-CodeIgniter

thanks you for your answers, i anderstand your some of your propositions but this doesn’t correct my problem :
in my website http://ar.valuatemywebsite.com/  i want to support arabic so, i coded a file infos_lang.php and in this file i define for example links and titles but i don’t want in which format i must save the file infos_lang.php ?
this is my lang file sample :

$lang[‘infos_home’] = “حخهه”;
$lang[‘infos_blog’] = “”;
$lang[‘infos_contact’] = “Contact”;
$lang[‘infos_about’] = “A propos”;

In that page you have still charset set to utf8. It should be utf-8.

..change to

The problem probably is not because of that but you should fix that.
Just make sure everything is UTF-8. Save infos_lang.php(and other files too) as utf-8.