查看当前支持的MySQL字符集的命令

查看不同的MySQL字符集有不同的方法，下面介绍的命令用于查看当前支持的MySQL字符集，希望对您学习MySQL字符集能有所帮助。

mysql> show charset;  
mysql> show char 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 |  
| 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 |  
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+