MySQL字符集查看方法

时间：2010-12-07 来源：shellkiller

MySQL字符集多种多样，下面为列举了其中三种最常见的字符集查看方法，该方法供您参考，希望对学习MySQL数据库能有所启迪。

一、查看MySQL数据库服务器和数据库MySQL字符集。

mysql> show variables like '%char%';
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------+------
| Variable_name | Value |......
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------+------
| character_set_client | utf8 |...... -- 客户端字符集
| character_set_connection | utf8 |......
| character_set_database | utf8 |...... -- 数据库字符集
| character_set_filesystem | binary |......
| character_set_results | utf8 |......
| character_set_server | utf8 |...... -- 服务器字符集
| character_set_system | utf8 |......
| character_sets_dir | D:\MySQL Server 5.0\share\charsets\ |......
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------+------

二、查看MySQL数据表（table）的MySQL字符集。

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MySQL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            | .......  
        
          +----------------------+-------------+-----------------+--------