> Please let me introduce myself. I'm Rada Hussein from Egypt and I'm
> doing my Ph.D. in Medical Informatics in Germany. We are using Postgres
> in our database applications. I'm working specifically in Arabization.
> So, I'd be grateful if you could tell me if Postgres supports the Arabic
> encoding (8859-6)or not?. If not, how can I add it? or do you recommend
> to use Unicode instead? Or it will take huge data storage?

PostgreSQL 7.2 (in beta phase now) will support ISO 8859-6.
You could get it from, for example,
ftp://ftp2.us.postgresql.org/pub/beta.
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Tatsuo Ishii

Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:30:47 +0900
Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>
Re: postgres and 8859-6 encoding