安裝完的MySQL的預設字元集為 latin1 ,為了要將其字元集改為使用者所需要的(比如utf8),就必須改其相關的設定檔;由於linux下MySQL的預設安裝目錄分布在不同的檔案下;不像windows一樣放在同一目錄下,只需修改其中的my.ini檔案,重起後就生效了;所以先來看看linux下MySQL的資料庫檔案、設定檔和命令檔案分別在不同的目錄 :
1、資料庫目錄,其所建立的資料庫檔案都在該目錄下
/var/lib/mysql/
2、設定檔 (mysql.server命令及設定檔所在地)
/usr/share/mysql
3、相關命令(如mysql mysqladmin等)
/usr/bin
4、啟動指令碼(如mysql啟動命令)
/etc/rc.d/init.d/
查看預設字元集
#mysql -u root - p
#(輸入密碼)
mysql> show variables like 'character_set%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | latin1 |
| character_set_connection | latin1 |
| character_set_database | latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | latin1 |
| character_set_server | latin1 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
修改字元集
修改 /etc/my.cnf檔案
#/etc/my.cnf
[client]
default-character-set=utf8
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
# Disabling symbolic-links is recommended to prevent assorted security risks
symbolic-links=0
#default-character-set=utf8
character-set-server=utf8
init_connect='SET NAMES utf8'
[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
default-character-set=utf8
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
切記:在mysqld中加入的是
character-set-server=utf8 而不是 default-character-set=utf8
否則會報:Starting MySQL...The server quit without updating PID file [失敗]lib/mysql/localhost.localdomain.pid).異常
重起MySQL伺服器,使其設定的內容生效
#/etc/init.d/mysql restart