Bug #4364 Arabic Character set
Submitted: 1 Jul 2004 17:37 Modified: 15 Dec 2005 13:03
Reporter: Ramez Alfayez Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version: OS:
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any

[1 Jul 2004 17:37] Ramez Alfayez 
Description:
Is there character_set that supported arabic language..

and how can i change the default character set using sql command

How to repeat:
the order by when you add an arabic text...

it's not order it well...
it's order it using the default charactet set

and there is no an arabic character set in mysql server

Suggested fix:
can you add win 1256 charset
[10 Jan 2005 3:02] David L Lambert 
UTF8 supports Arabic,  and is probably a better choice for a database character set because it also supports other languages (and supports a few characters that don't appear in CP1256).
[15 Dec 2005 13:03] Aleksey Kishkin 
Thank you for taking the time to report a problem.  Unfortunately
you are not using a current version of the product your reported a
problem with -- the problem might already be fixed. Please download
a new version from http://www.mysql.com/downloads/

If you are able to reproduce the bug with one of the latest versions,
please change the version on this bug report to the version you
tested and change the status back to "Open".  Again, thank you for
your continued support of MySQL.

Additional info:

cp1256 supports in 4.1 and in 5.0