8.11.4 The Asian Character Sets

The Asian character sets that we support include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai. These can be complicated. For example, the Chinese sets have to allow for thousands of different characters.

+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
| Charset  | Description                 | Default collation   | Maxlen |
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
| big5     | Big5 Traditional Chinese    | big5_chinese_ci     |      2 |
| gb2312   | GB2312 Simplified Chinese   | gb2312_chinese_ci   |      2 |
| gbk      | GBK Simplified Chinese      | gbk_chinese_ci      |      2 |
| euckr    | EUC-KR Korean               | euckr_korean_ci     |      2 |
| ujis     | EUC-JP Japanese             | ujis_japanese_ci    |      3 |
| sjis     | Shift-JIS Japanese          | sjis_japanese_ci    |      2 |
| tis620   | TIS620 Thai                 | tis620_thai_ci      |      1 |
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+

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