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hi
when i tried to store Arabic chars (from a textbox) in a db table all i got is "?" chars instead of the actual letters.that happens on my database on the server
but in my machine everything works fine
i changed the responseEncoding/requestEncoding/fileEncoding to "windows-1256" but there is no benefit .

any idea ?

thanks in advanceis the db column an nvarchar or ntext ?
what is the default encoding of the db itself ?|||thanks for replying

the db column is nvarchar

the default encoding of the db exactly i don't know ? how can i figure it out ?