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Interestingly Chrome auto-corrected this.

That worked, thanks.

Your browser probably auto-detects the encoding as Western (ISO-8959-1). Change it to Unicode (UTF-8) to see the Arabic characters.

What's your OS? Here's how it looks to me:

http://twitpic.com/69kqzg

Mac OS X 10.6.8 / Google Chrome 13.0.782.112

Firefox 6 seems to ignore the encoding declaration in the xml prolog. Setting a content-type meta tag should fix this (or setting the encoding in the http headers).

That is because text/html content is not actually parsed as XML.