The SHOW CHARACTER SET command shows all available character sets. : COLLATION Character Set : Table MySQL TUTORIALS

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The SHOW CHARACTER SET command shows all available character sets.

It takes an optional LIKE clause that indicates which character set names to match.


mysql>
mysql>
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 |
+---------+-----------------------------+-------------------+--------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

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