Getting Arabic Query String in Question Marks - php

Question

I am getting a a request like this and the url looks like this : http://domain.com/page.php?text={Arabic Word}
Now am trying to get the text using $_GET['text'] but i keep getting it like "????????" , whats the problem
<?php
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
include('EnTransliteration.class.php');
$tr = new EnTransliteration();
$str = iconv( "utf-8//TRANSLIT//IGNORE","windows-1256", $_GET['text']);
$en_str = $tr->ar2en($str);
$string = <<<XML
<root>
<translation>$en_str</translation>
</root>
XML;
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($string);
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8');
echo $xml->asXML();
?>

Answer 1

Your Apache server probably doesn't accept UTF-8 URL encoding. See this answer to solve your problem.
Hope it will help :)

Answer 2

Your HTML form needs to explicitly declare that the data must be sent as UTF-8. Otherwise, it will use the user's locale, which may not mean windows-1256, and certainly doesn't mean UTF-8.
e.g.
<form action="" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8">

Answer 3

maybe this can help :
<?php
$title = 'أبجد هوز';
$path1 = '/product/'.rawurlencode($title);
echo $path1."<br>";
$path2 = rawurldecode($path1);
echo $path2;
?>

Answer 4

1-open start
2-open notepad
3-write your code
4-when you saving file make Encoding: utf-8
5-file name name.html name.php