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MySQL 8.4 Reference Manual
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Specifying Character Sets and Collations
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Server Character Set and Collation
Database Character Set and Collation
Table Character Set and Collation
Column Character Set and Collation
Character String Literal Character Set and Collation
The National Character Set
Character Set Introducers
Examples of Character Set and Collation Assignment
Compatibility with Other DBMSs
Connection Character Sets and Collations
Configuring Application Character Set and Collation
Error Message Character Set
Column Character Set Conversion
Collation Issues
Using COLLATE in SQL Statements
COLLATE Clause Precedence
Character Set and Collation Compatibility
Collation Coercibility in Expressions
The binary Collation Compared to _bin Collations
Examples of the Effect of Collation
Using Collation in INFORMATION_SCHEMA Searches
Unicode Support
The utf8mb4 Character Set (4-Byte UTF-8 Unicode Encoding)
The utf8mb3 Character Set (3-Byte UTF-8 Unicode Encoding)
The utf8 Character Set (Deprecated alias for utf8mb3)
The ucs2 Character Set (UCS-2 Unicode Encoding)
The utf16 Character Set (UTF-16 Unicode Encoding)
The utf16le Character Set (UTF-16LE Unicode Encoding)
The utf32 Character Set (UTF-32 Unicode Encoding)
Converting Between 3-Byte and 4-Byte Unicode Character Sets
Supported Character Sets and Collations
Unicode Character Sets
West European Character Sets
Central European Character Sets
South European and Middle East Character Sets
Baltic Character Sets
Cyrillic Character Sets
Asian Character Sets
The cp932 Character Set
The gb18030 Character Set
The Binary Character Set
Restrictions on Character Sets
Setting the Error Message Language
Adding a Character Set
Character Definition Arrays
String Collating Support for Complex Character Sets
Multi-Byte Character Support for Complex Character Sets
Adding a Collation to a Character Set
Collation Implementation Types
Choosing a Collation ID
Adding a Simple Collation to an 8-Bit Character Set
Adding a UCA Collation to a Unicode Character Set
Defining a UCA Collation Using LDML Syntax
LDML Syntax Supported in MySQL
Diagnostics During Index.xml Parsing
Character Set Configuration
MySQL Server Locale Support
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MySQL Data Dictionary
The InnoDB Storage Engine
Alternative Storage Engines
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MySQL Shell
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MySQL Performance Schema
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The utf16le Character Set (UTF-16LE Unicode Encoding)
12.9.6 The utf16le Character Set (UTF-16LE Unicode Encoding)
This is the same as
utf16
but is little-endian rather than big-endian.
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