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      12.10.4 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.
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      <code class="literal">
       armscii8
      </code>
      (ARMSCII-8 Armenian) collations:
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         <code class="literal">
          armscii8_bin
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         <code class="literal">
          armscii8_general_ci
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         (default)
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      <code class="literal">
       cp1256
      </code>
      (Windows Arabic) collations:
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         <code class="literal">
          cp1256_bin
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         <code class="literal">
          cp1256_general_ci
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         (default)
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      <code class="literal">
       geostd8
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      (GEOSTD8 Georgian) collations:
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         <code class="literal">
          geostd8_bin
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         <code class="literal">
          geostd8_general_ci
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         (default)
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      <code class="literal">
       greek
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      (ISO 8859-7 Greek) collations:
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         <code class="literal">
          greek_bin
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         <code class="literal">
          greek_general_ci
         </code>
         (default)
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      <code class="literal">
       hebrew
      </code>
      (ISO 8859-8 Hebrew) collations:
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         <code class="literal">
          hebrew_bin
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         <code class="literal">
          hebrew_general_ci
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         (default)
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      <code class="literal">
       latin5
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      (ISO 8859-9 Turkish) collations:
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         <code class="literal">
          latin5_bin
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         <code class="literal">
          latin5_turkish_ci
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         (default)
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