### 10.10.4 South European and Middle East Character Sets

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 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)

