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Is there a way to change the character set to accept arabic characters beside the normal english characters?

May 10th, 2000 22:14
Nathan Wallace, Tim Smith


The best short-term solution is to use BINARY character fields.

If you want to add arabic character set handling, check the MySQL manual
for information on how to add a character set.