SHOW {CHARACTER SET | CHARSET}
[LIKE 'pattern' | WHERE expr]
The SHOW CHARACTER SET
statement
shows all available character sets. The
LIKE
clause, if present, indicates
which character set names to match. The WHERE
clause can be given to select rows using more general
conditions, as discussed in Section 28.8, “Extensions to SHOW Statements”. For
example:
mysql> SHOW CHARACTER SET LIKE 'latin%';
+---------+-----------------------------+-------------------+--------+
| Charset | Description | Default collation | Maxlen |
+---------+-----------------------------+-------------------+--------+
| latin1 | cp1252 West European | latin1_swedish_ci | 1 |
| latin2 | ISO 8859-2 Central European | latin2_general_ci | 1 |
| latin5 | ISO 8859-9 Turkish | latin5_turkish_ci | 1 |
| latin7 | ISO 8859-13 Baltic | latin7_general_ci | 1 |
+---------+-----------------------------+-------------------+--------+
SHOW CHARACTER SET
output has
these columns:
Charset
The character set name.
Description
A description of the character set.
Default collation
The default collation for the character set.
Maxlen
The maximum number of bytes required to store one character.
The filename
character set is for internal
use only; consequently, SHOW CHARACTER
SET
does not display it.
Character set information is also available from the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA
CHARACTER_SETS
table.