South European and Middle East Character Sets MySQL provides some support for character sets used in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, and Serbia (Latin). • cp1250  (Windows Central European) collations: • cp1250_bin • cp1250_croatian_ci • cp1250_czech_cs • cp1250_polish_ci • cp1250_general_ci  (default) • cp852  (DOS Central European) collations: • cp852_bin • keybcs2  (DOS Kamenicky Czech-Slovak) collations: • cp852_general_ci  (default) • keybcs2_bin • keybcs2_general_ci  (default) • latin2  (ISO 8859-2 Central European) collations: • latin2_bin • latin2_croatian_ci • latin2_czech_cs • latin2_general_ci  (default) • latin2_hungarian_ci • macce  (Mac Central European) collations: • macce_bin • macce_general_ci  (default) 10.10.4 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 1979