Oracle 5.0 Reference Manual page 822

•
euckr_bin
•
euckr_korean_ci
• (GB2312 Simplified Chinese) collations:
gb2312
•
gb2312_bin
•
gb2312_chinese_ci
• (GBK Simplified Chinese) collations:
gbk
•
gbk_bin
•
gbk_chinese_ci
• (Shift-JIS Japanese) collations:
sjis
•
sjis_bin
•
sjis_japanese_ci
• (TIS620 Thai) collations:
tis620
•
tis620_bin
•
tis620_thai_ci
• (EUC-JP Japanese) collations:
ujis
•
ujis_bin
•
ujis_japanese_ci
The
big5_chinese_ci
For additional information about Asian collations in MySQL, see Collation-Charts.Org (big5, cp932,
eucjpms, euckr, gb2312, gbk, sjis, tis620, ujis).
10.1.13.7.1. The
cp932
Why is
cp932
In MySQL, the
which supports JIS X0201 and JIS X0208 characters. (See
sets.)
However, the meaning of "SHIFT JIS" as a descriptive term has become very vague and it often
includes the extensions to
For example, "SHIFT JIS" used in Japanese Windows environments is a Microsoft extension of
Shift_JIS
the characters supported by Shift_JIS,
characters, NEC selected—IBM extended characters, and IBM selected characters.
Many Japanese users have experienced problems using these extension characters. These problems
stem from the following factors:
• MySQL automatically converts character sets.
• Character sets are converted using Unicode (ucs2).
Character Sets and Collations That MySQL Supports
(default)
(default)
(default)
(default)
(default)
(default)
collation sorts on number of strokes.
Character Set
needed?
character set corresponds to the
sjis
Shift_JIS
and its exact name is
Microsoft Windows Codepage : 932
Shift_JIS
http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-
that are defined by various vendors.
supports extension characters such as NEC special
cp932
802
character set defined by IANA,
or cp932. In addition to