<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif, &#39;Arial Unicode MS&#39;; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">actually this is what  i got when i used UTF8_decode function of PHP <br><br>CODE:<br>

&lt;?php<br>    $conn = mysql_connect(&#39;localhost&#39;,&#39;root&#39;,&#39;healthnet&#39;) or die(&#39;Could not connect to database&#39;);<br>    $db = mysql_select_db(&#39;koha&#39;,$conn) or die(&#39;Could not select database&#39;);<br>

    $query = mysql_query(&quot;SELECT author FROM biblio&quot;) or die(&#39;Could not execute query&#39;);<br>    $row = mysql_fetch_array($query);<br>    echo &#39;&lt;pre&gt;&#39;.$row[&#39;author&#39;].&#39;&lt;/pre&gt;&#39;;<br>

    echo &#39;&lt;pre&gt;&#39;.utf8_decode($row[&#39;author&#39;]).&#39;&lt;/pre&gt;&#39;;<br>?&gt;<br>    <br>Result:<br><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; ">&quot;कारॠकी, à¤¯à¥ à¤µà¤°à¤¾à¤œ à¤¸à¤¿à¤‚ह&quot;</pre>

<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; ">&quot;�?ार्�?�?, युवरा�? सि�?ह&quot;</pre><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Is there a problem with the <a href="http://search.pl">search.pl</a> script file???</span></font></div>

<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I have set up the mysql character set as UTF8 and also the collation in phpmyadmin is utf8_general_ci . Isn&#39;t this sufficient for the Nepali Unicode??? </span></font></div>

<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Nepali is a Devnagari Script, similar to Hindi.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>

</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Please Help.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br>

</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks.</span></font></div></span>-- <br>Nitesh Rijal<br>BE IT<br><a href="http://niteshrijal.com.np">http://niteshrijal.com.np</a><br>

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