Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 462

• The client requests a character set not known to the server. For example, a Japanese-enabled
client requests
sjis
• was started with the
mysqld
which causes it to ignore client character set configuration. This reproduces MySQL 4.0 behavior
and is useful should you wish to upgrade the server without upgrading all the clients.
cannot be used as a client character set, which means that it also does not work for
ucs2
or
NAMES SET CHARACTER
•
character_set_connection
Variable Name
Variable Scope
Dynamic Variable
The character set used for literals that do not have a character set introducer and for number-to-
string conversion.
•
character_set_database
Variable Name
Variable Scope
Dynamic Variable
Footnote
The character set used by the default database. The server sets this variable whenever the
default database changes. If there is no default database, the variable has the same value as
character_set_server
•
character_set_filesystem
Version Introduced
Command-Line Format
Option-File Format
Option Sets Variable
Variable Name
Variable Scope
Dynamic Variable
The file system character set. This variable is used to interpret string literals that refer
to file names, such as in the
statements and the
LOAD_FILE()
character_set_client
file opening attempt occurs. The default value is binary, which means that no conversion
Server System Variables
when connecting to a server not configured with
--skip-character-set-client-handshake
SET.
[442]
character_set_connection
Global, Session
Yes
Permitted Values
Type
string
[442]
character_set_database
Global, Session
Yes
This option is dynamic, but only the server should set this information.
You should not set the value of this variable manually.
Permitted Values
Type
string
[443].
[442]
5.0.19
--character-set-filesystem=name
character-set-filesystem
Yes,
character_set_filesystem
character_set_filesystem
Global, Session
Yes
Permitted Values
Type
string
LOAD DATA INFILE
[890] function. Such file names are converted from
[441] to
character_set_filesystem
442
sjis
[442]
and
SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE
[442]
support.
[402] option,
SET
before the