View currently supported MySQL character set commands

There are different ways to view different MySQL character sets. The following command is used to view the currently supported MySQL character sets. It is helpful for you to learn the MySQL character set.

 
 

  
  
mysql> show charset;  
  
  
mysql> show char set;  
  
  
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+  
  
  
| Charset | Description                 | Default collation   | Maxlen |  
  
  
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+  
  
  
| big5     | Big5 Traditional Chinese    | big5_chinese_ci     |      2 |  
  
  
| dec8     | DEC West European           | dec8_swedish_ci     |      1 |  
  
  
| cp850    | DOS West European           | cp850_general_ci    |      1 |  
  
  
| hp8      | HP West European            | hp8_english_ci      |      1 |  
  
  
| koi8r    | KOI8-R Relcom Russian       | koi8r_general_ci    |      1 |  
  
  
| latin1   | cp1252 West European        | latin1_swedish_ci   |      1 |  
  
  
| latin2   | ISO 8859-2 Central European | latin2_general_ci   |      1 |  
  
  
| swe7     | 7bit Swedish                | swe7_swedish_ci     |      1 |  
  
  
| ascii    | US ASCII                    | ascii_general_ci    |      1 |  
  
  
| ujis     | EUC-JP Japanese             | ujis_japanese_ci    |      3 |  
  
  
| sjis     | Shift-JIS Japanese          | sjis_japanese_ci    |      2 |  
  
  
| hebrew   | ISO 8859-8 Hebrew           | hebrew_general_ci   |      1 |  
  
  
| tis620   | TIS620 Thai                 | tis620_thai_ci      |      1 |  
  
  
| euckr    | EUC-KR Korean               | euckr_korean_ci     |      2 |  
  
  
| koi8u    | KOI8-U Ukrainian            | koi8u_general_ci    |      1 |  
  
  
| gb2312   | GB2312 Simplified Chinese   | gb2312_chinese_ci   |      2 |  
  
  
| greek    | ISO 8859-7 Greek            | greek_general_ci    |      1 |  
  
  
| cp1250   | Windows Central European    | cp1250_general_ci   |      1 |  
  
  
| gbk      | GBK Simplified Chinese      | gbk_chinese_ci      |      2 |  
  
  
| latin5   | ISO 8859-9 Turkish          | latin5_turkish_ci   |      1 |  
  
  
| armscii8 | ARMSCII-8 Armenian          | armscii8_general_ci |      1 |  
  
  
| utf8     | UTF-8 Unicode               | utf8_general_ci     |      3 |  
  
  
| ucs2     | UCS-2 Unicode               | ucs2_general_ci     |      2 |  
  
  
| cp866    | DOS Russian                 | cp866_general_ci    |      1 |  
  
  
| keybcs2 | DOS Kamenicky Czech-Slovak | keybcs2_general_ci |      1 |  
  
  
| macce    | Mac Central European        | macce_general_ci    |      1 |  
  
  
| macroman | Mac West European           | macroman_general_ci |      1 |  
  
  
| cp852    | DOS Central European        | cp852_general_ci    |      1 |  
  
  
| latin7   | ISO 8859-13 Baltic          | latin7_general_ci   |      1 |  
  
  
| cp1251   | Windows Cyrillic            | cp1251_general_ci   |      1 |  
  
  
| cp1256   | Windows Arabic              | cp1256_general_ci   |      1 |  
  
  
| cp1257   | Windows Baltic              | cp1257_general_ci   |      1 |  
  
  
| binary   | Binary pseudo charset       | binary              |      1 |  
  
  
| geostd8 | GEOSTD8 Georgian            | geostd8_general_ci |      1 |  
  
  
| cp932    | SJIS for Windows Japanese   | cp932_japanese_ci   |      2 |  
  
  
| eucjpms | UJIS for Windows Japanese   | eucjpms_japanese_ci |      3 |  
  
  
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+ 
 
 

The preceding MySQL character set command is applicable to Windows and Linux.
 

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