arabic characters

Re: arabic characters

Are you saving your ASPX files as UTF8? Also, just to be sure, check what
Encoding IE is using when browsing the page.

-mike
MVP

"Joe Abou Jaoude" <joe30@hotmail. com> wrote in message
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>
> hi,
> I m trying to fill dropdownlists on my aspx web page with arabic
> characters. here's an example:
>
> <SELECT NAME="subject" SIZE="1" dir="rtl"> <OPTION SELECTED>
> <OPTION value="14"> áÃ.ÃSÃ.Ã?áÃ?à S Ã?áÃ"áÃYíÃ?
> æÃ?ááÃ?Ã"áà YíÃ?
> </OPTION>
> <OPTION value="3395"> Ã?áÃ.ÃSÝÃ?Ãzà ?ÃS
> </OPTION>
> </OPTION>
> </SELECT>
>
> this example show perfect arabic characters in html pages but unreadable
> characters (like the ones shown) in aspx pages.
>
> can anyone tell me why ?
> and how can I display arabic charactes ?
>
> PS:In the globalisation tag of the web.config file the requestEncoding
> and the responseEncodin g attributes are set to utf-8
>
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