Che linguaggi o character set sono supportati da MySQL?

Per determinare quali linguaggi (character set) sono supportati in MySQL, seguite queste istruzioni:

1. Aprire l'interfaccia phpMyAdmin
2. Click sul nome del database da modificare
3. Click su SQL
4. Inserite la query seguente:

SHOW CHARACTER SET;

5. Cliccate Go per eseguire la query.


Il risultato sara' piu' o meno questo:

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
eucjpms	UJIS for Windows Japanese	eucjpms_japanese_ci	3