Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 2912

MySQL 5.0 FAQ: MySQL Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Character Sets
• B.11.8: [2896] Of what issues should I be aware when working with Korean character sets in
MySQL?
• B.11.9: [2896] Why do I get
• B.11.10: [2897] Why does my GUI front end or browser not display CJK characters correctly in my
application using Access, PHP, or another API?
• B.11.11: [2898] I've upgraded to MySQL 5.0. How can I revert to behavior like that in MySQL 4.0
with regard to character sets?
• B.11.12: [2899] Why do some
• B.11.13: [2899] How do I know whether character
• B.11.14: [2900] Why do CJK strings sort incorrectly in Unicode? (I)
• B.11.15: [2901] Why do CJK strings sort incorrectly in Unicode? (II)
• B.11.16: [2902] Why are my supplementary characters rejected by MySQL?
• B.11.17: [2902] Shouldn't it be "CJKV"?
• B.11.18: [2902] Does MySQL allow CJK characters to be used in database and table names?
• B.11.19: [2903] Where can I find translations of the MySQL Manual into Chinese, Japanese, and
Korean?
• B.11.20: [2903] Where can I get help with CJK and related issues in MySQL?
Questions and Answers
B.11.1: What CJK character sets are available in MySQL?
The list of CJK character sets may vary depending on your MySQL version. For example,
the character set was not supported prior to MySQL 5.0.3. However, since the
eucjpms
name of the applicable language appears in the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CHARACTER_SETS
CJK character sets using this query:
mysql> SELECT CHARACTER_SET_NAME, DESCRIPTION
-> FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.CHARACTER_SETS
-> WHERE DESCRIPTION LIKE '%Chinese%'
-> OR DESCRIPTION LIKE '%Japanese%'
-> OR DESCRIPTION LIKE '%Korean%'
-> ORDER BY CHARACTER_SET_NAME;
+--------------------+---------------------------+
| CHARACTER_SET_NAME | DESCRIPTION
+--------------------+---------------------------+
| big5
| cp932
| eucjpms
| euckr
| gb2312
| gbk
| sjis
| ujis
+--------------------+---------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.01 sec)
(See Section 19.1, "The
MySQL supports the two common variants of the GB (Guojia Biaozhun, or National Standard, or
Simplified Chinese) character sets which are official in the People's Republic of China:
and gbk. Sometimes people try to insert
Incorrect string value
[896] and
LIKE
| Big5 Traditional Chinese
| SJIS for Windows Japanese |
| UJIS for Windows Japanese |
| EUC-KR Korean
| GB2312 Simplified Chinese |
| GBK Simplified Chinese
| Shift-JIS Japanese
| EUC-JP Japanese
INFORMATION_SCHEMA CHARACTER_SETS
gbk
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error messages?
searches with CJK characters fail?
FULLTEXT
is available in all character sets?
X
column for every entry in the
DESCRIPTION
table, you can obtain a current list of all the non-Unicode
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characters into gb2312, and it works most of the time
Table", for more information.)
gb2312