Simple Linux MySQL GUI Client That Reads UTF-8? I'm an inexperienced MySQL user running Ubuntu and I need to open a database full of Hebrew data. I prefer a GUI and I downloaded MySQL Workbench. Not only is it incredibly confusing for me, but when I finally figured out how to import the database and run a query, the data just comes out like %16%19%22 etc. Apparently that's because it's using Latin encoding.

So my question is, is there a very simple MySQL GUI Front-end that will let me just see the tables and the data in it in Hebrew, and let me simply and easily execute queries containing Hebrew characters?
This was asked (and answered) on StackExchange, but I do think it's a very valid question for our forum.

The correct answer is that you have to issue the following command:

SET NAMES 'charset_name' COLLATE 'collation_name'


which for your case (from here) is

SET NAMES 'hebrew' COLLATE 'hebrew_general_ci'


If for whatever reason this doesn't work for you, you could install a Hebrew version of Linux on some machine you have lying around?