13.7.5.3 SHOW CHARACTER SET Statement
SHOW CHARACTER SET
[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 24.35, “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. See Section 24.2, “The INFORMATION_SCHEMA CHARACTER_SETS Table”.