how can i choose the right encoding to read arabic

[gaser hasan]

Please I have a problem in the page encoding where it cant read arabic rightly:
- my webpages are jsp and i tried the encoding directive

  <%@page contentType="text/html" pageEncoding="UTF-8"%> 
  

- and the meta tague header

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" lang="ar-kw"/>
  

but it shows me the data selected from the database encrypted ( محاورات)
- when i removed the java directive it needed to select the utf-8 encoding manually from the browser to be read
so can any one please tell me how can i solve this problem and choose the right way to palce encoding ?
by the way i set the chareset for the database utf-8

  jdbc:mysql://localhost:3307/alsa7a1c?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8  

thanks in advance

[Christophe Verré]

Try this instead :

<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" pageEncoding="UTF-8" %>

[gaser hasan]

thanks Christophe Verré for reply but i tried it before and now but it didn't solve the matter

but you know that if i removed the directive completely and kept the meta tage header it shows me the language encrypted but when selecting utf-8manually
it shows the language ok so my i know if there is some thing that select the chareset utf-8 automatically ?


thanks in advance

[Christophe Verré]

In your servlet, did you use the setCharacterEncoding and setContentType methods on the response ?