mysql> show table status from sqlstudy_db like '%countries%';+-----------+--------+---------+------------+------+-----------------+------| Name | Engine | Version | Row_format | Rows | Collation |......+-----------+--------+---------+------------+------+-----------------+------| countries | InnoDB | 10 | Compact | 11 | utf8_general_ci |......+-----------+--------+---------+------------+------+-----------------+------
三、查看 MySQL 数据列(column)的字符集。
mysql> show full columns from countries;+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+--------| Field | Type | Collation | .......+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+--------| countries_id | int(11) | NULL | .......| countries_name | varchar(64) | utf8_general_ci | .......| countries_iso_code_2 | char(2) | utf8_general_ci | .......| countries_iso_code_3 | char(3) | utf8_general_ci | .......| address_format_id | int(11) | NULL | .......+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+--------
四、查看当前安装的 MySQL 所支持的字符集。
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 |+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
以上查看 MySQL 字符集命令,适用于 Windows & Linux。
3. 修改my.cnf
vi /etc/my.cnf
在[client]下添加
default-character-set=utf8
在[mysqld]下添加
default-character-set=utf8
4.重新启动MySQL
[root@bogon ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql restart
Shutting down MySQL [ 确定 ]
Starting MySQL. [ 确定 ]
[root@bogon ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1
Server version: 5.1.22-rc-community-log MySQL Community Edition (GPL)
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
5.查看字符集设置
mysql> show variables like 'collation_%';
+----------------------+-----------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+----------------------+-----------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_server | utf8_general_ci |
+----------------------+-----------------+
3 rows in set (0.02 sec)
mysql> show variables like 'character_set_%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.02 sec)
mysql>
其他的一些设置方法:
修改数据库的字符集
mysql>use mydb
mysql>alter database mydb character set utf-8;
创建数据库指定数据库的字符集
mysql>create database mydb character set utf-8;