[PHP] Arabic Form Input - Help!

Hello, I am writing software which uses MySQL as a backend. I need to accept Arabic form input, store it in MySQL, and use it later. I don't believe MySQL supports Unicode except in BLOB column types, so I want to convert it to NCR (numeric character html entities). After looking at iconv() and re

[PHP] iconv and html-ified unicode

Hi, I am using a MySQL backend which does not accept Unicode, except in BLOB columns. So I need to convert my text to HTML-ified Unicode (i.e. &#xxx) ... for instance, when someone submits via a form and I need to insert this into the database. I want to use iconv, but I dont see a character set f