10.1.14.4. 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)

For additional information about South European and Middle Eastern collations in MySQL, see Collation-Charts.Org (armscii8, cp1256, geostd8, greek, hebrew, latin5).