[selowitch]

I have what I think is an interesting challenge:

1. I have an overwhelmingly English-language contacts database I've developed in MySQL.
2. I do have a need, however, for a single table containing the Hebrew names of those contacts who happen to be Jewish and have either a religious name they use in synagogue or are Israeli.
3. So what I've done is create a separate table called "hebrew_names" with three columns: hebrew_name_id, name, person_id.
4. I've experimented with collations and character sets related to Hebrew but don't see any effect from that, and if I enter characters using the Hebrew palette of my Mac's international menu, the characters show up in my the MySQL table as question marks only.
5. I realize that I could simply enter the names as a string of HTML entities. For example, if I wanted to spell the name Moshe (assuming I'm working in a left-to-right system as opposed to Hebrew's normal right-to-left system), I would enter משה. So far so good.
6. The troubles are: I don't necessarily want to use this data in XML/HTML documents, but rather I want it to be interoperable with many different kinds of applications, and I would also like to be able to display/edit these names using a Hebrew font, and edit right-to-left if possible. I don't want to have to view the data as HTML to be able to read it.

Any suggestions? I can use either Navicat or phpMyAdmin for this purpose.

[SirCastor]

Forgive me for asking this, but have you gone through the MySQL manual? Full support for Hebrew exists:

http://www.mysql.org/doc/refman/5.0/...-charsets.html

You'll probably need to make sure that your table/DB knows that you're trying to use Hebrew though.
edit: http://www.mysql.org/doc/refman/5.0/...set-table.html

[selowitch]

Originally Posted by SirCastor

Forgive me for asking this, but have you gone through the MySQL manual? Full support for Hebrew exists:

http://www.mysql.org/doc/refman/5.0/...-charsets.html

You'll probably need to make sure that your table/DB knows that you're trying to use Hebrew though.
edit: http://www.mysql.org/doc/refman/5.0/...set-table.html

Yes, I did read that section, but it's not written in "English," if you know what I mean. Anyway, all of my character_set_ variables are set to UTF-8. Maybe I should switch them to "hebrew"?