I have some tables containing 30K+ each with longitude latitude and other fields .. many in Arabic .. if I delete the fields inArabic then I can use the longitude latitude to display the points .. however, the the arabic in the table it fails .. any suggestoins about working with Arabic tables in ArcGIS? Thanks!
here is a snapshot of the table
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add in a secondary numeric ID field to the table, export ID,Long,Lat, create an event them, then shape file, join the source table to the shapefile using the temp ID field, but Jayanta Poddar 's suggestion would be a definite first go