arabic characters

[Joe Abou Jaoude]

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"> áÅÊÕÇáÇÊ ÇáÓáßÃ*É
æÇááÇÓáßÃ*É
</OPTION>
<OPTION value="3395"> ÇáÅÊ�ÇÞÇÊ
</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 responseEncoding attributes are set to utf-8

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[Michael Giagnocavo [MVP]]

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" <jo***@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?ÃS Ã?áÃ"áÃYÃ*Ã?
æÃ?ááÃ?Ã"áÃYÃ*Ã?
</OPTION>
<OPTION value="3395"> Ã?áÃ.ÃSÃ�Ã?ÃzÃ?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 responseEncoding attributes are set to utf-8

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