Tekitchen - If your database Character-set is latin1 and collation is latin1_general_ci then your Arabic data is stored like this in your database '????????' as we explain in the previous post .
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TUTORIAL: Create Character Set in MySQL, Query The Database Creation, Change the Character set and Collation(My SQL) as well as a description of Character set and Collation, the ASCII Character Set, Extended-ASCII
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Character set 'utf8mb4' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the '/usr/share/mysql/charsets/Index.xml' file - Database Administrators Stack Exchange
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