CI when inserting arabic character it convert to?

Question

i am developing json web-service using Codeigniter, when user POST Arabic character using web-service, in database it store like ????, but when i insert Arabic character using phpMyAdmin it working fine and also display well in web-service result, only issue with insert data.

in application/config/database.php

i used 'char_set' => 'utf8' and 'dbcollat' => 'utf8_general_ci'

but still issue is there.

Answer 1

If any one arrise issue in particular table field in PhpMyadmin, so can you please go to phpMyadmin than change Collation (table related accroding field) like
My Table Name : User , My field name : user_name

 change it Collation latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_general_ci