About the Arabic code page
The feature described in this Help topic is only available if support for right-to-left languages is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.
In addition, to enable the right-to-left features in Microsoft Access, you must be running a 32-bit Microsoft Windows operating system that has right-to-left support
Each code page is identified by a unique code page number. The code page (CP) for Arabic is CP 1256.
Access sorts right-to-left databases by using values from Unicode, not those from the right-to-left code page as in earlier versions. Opened or imported databases that use the Arabic code page and Arabic sort order will be converted to Unicode and General sort order.
