snhlawy

i have the below error when trying to read arabic characters from DB to be displayed in the dropdown menu but if i read english characters from DB it works fine please help. the error message is SCREAM: Error suppression ignored for ( ! ) Warning: mysql_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given in C:\wamp\www\Autoservice website & system\inventory\pqty.php on line 132 my code is <select name="owner"> <?php mysql_connect("localhost","snhlawy","thena7labee") or die("Couldn't connect."); mysql_select_db("data") or die ("Couldn't select db."); $sql = mysql_query("SELECT desc FROM inventory"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)){ ?> <option value="owner1"><?php echo $row['desc']; ?></option> <?php // close while loop } ?>