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
8.11.2 Platform Specific Character Sets
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+ | Charset | Description | Default collation | Maxlen | +----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+ | dec8 | DEC West European | dec8_swedish_ci | 1 | | hp8 | HP West European | hp8_english_ci | 1 | +----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
