php (.ini) using arab from mysql/variable

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Hello,

I am trying to get an arab string $html = 'ل مسؤول أميركي رفيع إن الرئيس الأميركي جورج بوش سيحث رئي '; to view on a webpage. If i put the string directly in the html it shows correctly. but when getting it from a variable i just get a string witgh question marks ?????? ??? ????.


I also changed some settings in my php.ini but no luck either. does anybody know's how i can make this happen?

i noticed that it workes at this server.

thanks in advance.

below the php.ini settings
[code]
; language for internal character representation.
mbstring.language        = Neutral

; internal/script encoding.
; Some encoding cannot work as internal encoding.
; (e.g. SJIS, BIG5, ISO-2022-*)
mbstring.internal_encoding    = UTF-8

; http input encoding.
mbstring.http_input = pass
mbstring.http_input = auto
mbstring.http_input = UTF-8
mbstring.http_input = UTF-8, SJIS, EUC-JP

mbstring.encoding_translation = On


; http output encoding. mb_output_handler must be
; registered as output buffer to function
mbstring.http_output = pass
mbstring.http_output = UTF-8

; enable automatic encoding translation accoding to
; mbstring.internal_encoding setting. Input chars are
; converted to internal encoding by setting this to On.
; Note: Do _not_ use automatic encoding translation for
;       portable libs/applications.
mbstring.encoding_translation = On

; automatic encoding detection order.
; auto means
mbstring.detect_order = auto
mbstring.detect_order = ASCII, UTF-8, SJIS, EUC-JP, JIS
[/code]

I noticed after viewing the source of my post a came across these encode arab letters.

ل مسؤول أميركي رفي

with what function can i do this?

Thanks