Unicode and Encoding Problems in Browsers

[Muhammad Asif]

Hi,
I actually want to enter some Arabic text in simple HTML text box . I set language in my Windows XP settings to Arabic. When i tried to type, there are certain characters that are not displayed. Instead rectangles are displayed. Characters are from Unicode BMP which is supposed to be supported by browsers. I am using IE 6.0

Also default encoding of browser is UTF-8, but if i change the encoding to default windows "Western European" it works fine and every character is got displayed. Problem in this is when form is submitted you did not get Unicode characters but their entity references in HTML.

How can i make browser work to display unicode characters with UTF-8 encoding. So when form is submitted i get Unicode data to store in data base.

Thanks a lot for your time.

Asif