we use Informix 9.2 (Solaris) DB_LOCALE=en_us.utf8 and store arabic text and
even thai characters...without any problems (so far)...

Possibly '???' is because you are trying to display it using editors that
can't display arabic characters...

For instance this is unload of (word arabic written in arabic language and
writing) followed by word english 'arabic'...
when used vi
^Z^Z^Z^Z (Arabic)|

but here is octal dump of that small file (unload of the column with arabic
characters)....

!od t
0000000 015032 015032 020050 040562 060542 064543 024574 005000
0000017
!cat t
(Arabic)|

Possibly try to display what is stored using some other editor... or use od
and compare what you load into the table and what you unload from the
table...

HTH


-----Original Message-----
From: forum.subscriber@iiug.org [mailto:forum.subscriber@iiug.org]On
Behalf Of REGHUNADH P....
Sent: 26 January 2004 07:34
To: classics@iiug.org
Subject: Storage of Arabic Text [765]


Can anyone help me to know the right method for storing Arabic texts in
Informix ?. We are using Informix IDS 7.3x & when we inserted arabic
characters, it displayed as "??????".



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