MySQL

 
 
MySQL is a fast, multi-threaded, multi-user open source SQL database server.

The MySQL database is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). MySQL can be used for free when you are not distributing any part of the MySQL system. For example: If you run a commercial web site using the MySQL Database Software as long as MySQL is not distributed.

Please read the MySQL manual for situations where a commercial license is needed.

More information about MySQL can be found at: https://www.mysql.com

MySQL online manual can be found at: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/index.html

The latest MySQL version can be downloaded from: https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/index.html







Show list of available character sets.



Information
none

Operating system used
Windows Vista Home Premium SP 1

Software prerequisites
MySQL

Procedure
  1. Open a DOS box and type:
    C:\Tools\mysql\bin>mysql -uroot -pmysecret test

  2. To show a list of available character sets, type:
    show character set;

    You should see:
    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
    cp1251 Windows Cyrillic cp1251_general_ci 1
    cp1256 Windows Arabic cp1256_general_ci 1
    cp1257 Windows Baltic cp1257_general_ci 1
    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