If you look directly into the database are the Arabic characters correct?
Try using utf-8.
In global.asa session_onstart add:
session.codepage=65001
in the content-type metatag on each page use charset=utf-8.
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"NohaKhalifa" <> wrote in message
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> Dear All ,
> I have a very big problem regarding using Arabic Character set .
>
> I'm Developing an Arabic Web Site using Asp and connecting to Access
> Database .
> but i have a problem retreiving data from database after i uploaded
> site to the hosing server ....
> All the arabic data retreived from database using Asp appears as
> question marks ??????? and only staic arabic written in asp pages
> appears well but which retreived from database appears wrong .
>
> I put charset=windows-1256 in all my Asp pages and the hosting site
> support told us that they enabled Arabic in there system "Windows" .
>
> If anyone have any idea about this problem .please, send to me .
>
> Thanks alot
> Noha Khalifa