UTF-8 Persian collation in 4.1.x

[Peter Cruickshank]

Hello

If this is the wrong place to ask this question, I apologise in advance.

I am part of a team working on adapting a MySql-based CMS to work
with Persian, and the ability to collate content accurately is proving a
bit of an issue...

My question is: is anyone working on adding Persian (Farsi) UTF-8 collation
to MySql? If so, is there an estimate of when the work could be done?

We'd really rather stick to UTF-8 if at all possible, rather than resorting
to cp1256 or hacking with PHP.

Thanks for any help or pointers.

Cheers

Peter
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Peter Cruickshank, OpenConcept Consulting
Free Software for Social Change

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