MySQL Manual
8 National Character Sets and Unicode in MySQL 4.1
- 8.11 The Character Sets and Collations that MySQL Supports
- 8.11.1 The Unicode Character Sets
- 8.11.2 Platform Specific Character Sets
- 8.11.3 Character Sets for South Europe and Middle East
- 8.11.4 The Asian Character Sets
- 8.11.5 The Baltic Character Sets
- 8.11.6 The Cyrillic Character Sets
- 8.11.7 The Central European Character Sets
- 8.11.8 The West European Character Sets
8.11.1 The Unicode Character Sets
Of course there are our two Unicode character sets. You can store texts in about 650 languages using these character sets. We have not added a large number of collations for these two new sets yet, but that will be happening soon. Now they have default case-insensitive accent-insensitive collations, plus the binary collation.
+---------+-----------------+-------------------+--------+ | Charset | Description | Default collation | Maxlen | +---------+-----------------+-------------------+--------+ | utf8 | UTF-8 Unicode | utf8_general_ci | 3 | | ucs2 | UCS-2 Unicode | ucs2_general_ci | 2 | +---------+-----------------+-------------------+--------+
