SHOW CHARACTER SET

This statement provides a static list of available character sets in TiDB. The output does not reflect any attributes of the current connection or user.

Synopsis

ShowCharsetStmt:

ShowCharsetStmt

CharsetKw:

CharsetKw

Examples

  1. mysql> SHOW CHARACTER SET;
  2. +---------+---------------+-------------------+--------+
  3. | Charset | Description   | Default collation | Maxlen |
  4. +---------+---------------+-------------------+--------+
  5. | utf8    | UTF-8 Unicode | utf8_bin          |      3 |
  6. | utf8mb4 | UTF-8 Unicode | utf8mb4_bin       |      4 |
  7. | ascii   | US ASCII      | ascii_bin         |      1 |
  8. | latin1  | Latin1        | latin1_bin        |      1 |
  9. | binary  | binary        | binary            |      1 |
  10. +---------+---------------+-------------------+--------+
  11. 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

MySQL compatibility

The usage of SHOW CHARACTER SET statement in TiDB is fully compatible with MySQL. However, charsets in TiDB might have different default collations compared with MySQL. For details, refer to Compatibility with MySQL. If you find any compatibility differences, report a bug.

See also