title: Cakephp : How to save Arabic words into mysql table?
body: <p>I’m working on a project; I need to save some fields like having arabic character like first_name, last_name. 
  The form is posting all other fields correctly except these fields. </p>
  
  <p>I directly saved arabic words in database table but still it is showing ???? instead of original words.</p>
  
  <p>I’m using Charset <code>utf8</code> and Collation <code>utf8_unicode_ci</code> with these fields.
  Also on header I’ve  <code>&lt;meta charset="utf-8" /&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>I think it is some configuration issue of Cakephp because database seems okay. 
  I’ve tried this so far, it is not working.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;h1 lang="ar"&gt;&lt;?php echo $user['User']['first_name_ar']; ?&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is my database.php</p>
  
  <pre><code>public $default = array(
          'datasource' =&gt; 'Database/Mysql',
          'persistent' =&gt; false,
          'host' =&gt; 'localhost',
          'login' =&gt; 'root',
          'password' =&gt; '************',
          'database' =&gt; 'projectimpossible',
          'prefix' =&gt; '',
      );
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>