What is the query to know about all character sets supported by MySQL?

With the help of the following query we can see all the character sets supported by MySQL −
mysql> Show Character 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 |
| utf8mb4   | UTF-8 Unicode               | utf8mb4_general_ci  |      4 |
| cp1251    | Windows Cyrillic            | cp1251_general_ci   |      1 |
| utf16     | UTF-16 Unicode              | utf16_general_ci    |      4 |
| cp1256    | Windows Arabic              | cp1256_general_ci   |      1 |
| cp1257    | Windows Baltic              | cp1257_general_ci   |      1 |
| utf32     | UTF-32 Unicode              | utf32_general_ci    |      4 |
| 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 |
+-----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
39 rows in set (0.14 sec)
Vanithasree
Published on 19-Feb-2018 12:37:46
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