Arabic and english character problem with phpmyadmin and MySQL databse

[faruk_34]

Dear Sir,
i am facing a encoding problem with MySQL data base and phpMyAdmin.
i developed a form . From wher user can insert the Car plate No. to the MySQL database.Both of the php file for inserting and veiwing is encoded in UTF-8 format. suppose i want to insert plate no as . 1 2 3 ص ص ص ص
but i after inserting to the database i see the plate no as 1 2 3 Ù‚ Ù‚ Ù‚ Ù‚ in the database . In Database the plateno field's collation is utf8_unicode_ci.
so can you telll me where is my problem or how can i see the plate no using phpmyadmin as i inserted ?

Regards,
Faruk Chowdhury

[rulian]

what are you using for sql hack prevention, htmlentities and other functions of the sort will not with all character sets.
Try testing the DB but itself and inserting those characters directly wihtout using PHP see if it works.

See if it's a PHP or mysql problem first.