Exporting MySQL query with Arabic Content

While exporting a query as a file, if you come across some contents which are appearing as question marks ‘????????"’ then that means while exporting utf8 format was not enabled.

It can be enabled by setting --default-character-set=utf8 in mysql command on Unix / Linux / Solaris shell

Reference:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset-syntax.html

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