In order to get Hebrew text into the DB, I have to use SET NAMES ‘hebrew’. For which other languages should I do the same?
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In order to get Hebrew text into the DB, I have to use SET NAMES ‘hebrew’. For which other languages should I do the same?
No; you should not
SET NAMES 'hebrew'. This will lock you in to using a Hebrew-specific character set, making it impossible to store text in other non-Roman scripts.Use
SET NAMES 'utf8'to set MySQL to store text as Unicode. Always.