does mysql support other language rather than English?

[mousecat]

I have imported some tables to one of my sql which includes some Asian charactars. but when I check them up through phpmyadmin, it shows only question marks. How can I fix this problem?

[NMS]

phpmyadmin has a facility to change between the charchter sets . .for example I use utf-8 for Maltese characters and western for German characters