reading from a php file

[suzie]

dear, can I read arabic data from a .txt file using php?

$myFile = "testFile2.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');
$theData = fread($fh, 4);
fclose($fh);
echo $theData;

using this piece of code it doesn't gives me tha arabic letter?

any suggestions please.....

[suzie]

any help please

[DaveRandom]

This is a character set issue. I could write pages and pages on the subject, or you could go to this website where a nice gentleman has done it for me.

The summary, though, is that unless you know exactly what character set you are dealing with, it will never be 100% right.