Dear Sirs ...

Am PHP developer working on Sybase i have some problems in columns collation
the database charset is cp850 and am working on Linux , what is the appropriate char set i have to use on connection string because data is in Arabic , this is first ...

Second if need to run query like this
Select col_name Collate Arabic_CI_AS
from table
does it work like sql-server and what is the appropriate collation i need to work with in arabic case so i do avoid changing collation for database.

Thank you