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Open the CPanel, click on mysql databases then click on the phpmy admin. This will open up the manager for mysql. Once here you can see the character sets for mysql.
MySQL supports 70+ collations for 30+ character sets. This section indicates which character sets MySQL supports. There is one subsection for each group of related character sets. For each character set, the allowable collations are listed.
You can always list the available character sets and their default collations with the SHOW CHARACTER SET statement:
This list is current as of May 2006.
| 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 |
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