10.10.4 South European and Middle East Character Sets

South European and Middle Eastern character sets supported by MySQL include Armenian, Arabic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, and Turkish.

• armscii8 (ARMSCII-8 Armenian) collations:

  • armscii8_bin

  • armscii8_general_ci (default)

• cp1256 (Windows Arabic) collations:

  • cp1256_bin

  • cp1256_general_ci (default)

• geostd8 (GEOSTD8 Georgian) collations:

  • geostd8_bin

  • geostd8_general_ci (default)

• greek (ISO 8859-7 Greek) collations:

  • greek_bin

  • greek_general_ci (default)

• hebrew (ISO 8859-8 Hebrew) collations:

  • hebrew_bin

  • hebrew_general_ci (default)

• latin5 (ISO 8859-9 Turkish) collations:

  • latin5_bin

  • latin5_turkish_ci (default)