Folks, I'm not being lazy by asking this question. I had already done a full a search of the forums and doc's prior to writing this post.
I see the hints to using UTF-8 and changing databases and all that. My question is do I really have to do all that just for article content? The menus, links, everything can remain in Latin. In HTML, displaying Arabic is just a matter of inputing the text in unicode. How can this be made to work with eZ publish if it is possible.
UTF-8 should do it. The primary requirement is that you db must be able to handle utf-8, not all of them can. If you are using mysql you need a 4.1.X series version. Once you have that its relatively simple to set up eZ publish for this, as described in: