查看三种MySQL字符集的方法(转)

MySQL字符集多种多样，下面为您列举了其中三种最常见的MySQL字符集查看方法，该方法供您参考，希望对您学习MySQL数据库能有所启迪。

一、查看MySQL数据库服务器和数据库MySQL字符集。

1. mysql> show variables like '%char%';
2. +--------------------------+-------------------------------------+------
3. | Variable_name            | Value                               |......
4. +--------------------------+-------------------------------------+------
5. | character_set_client     | utf8                                |......   -- 客户端字符集
6. | character_set_connection | utf8                                |......
7. | character_set_database   | utf8                                |......   -- 数据库字符集
8. | character_set_filesystem | binary                              |......
9. | character_set_results    | utf8                                |......
10. | character_set_server     | utf8                                |......   -- 服务器字符集
11. | character_set_system     | utf8                                |......
12. | character_sets_dir       | D:\MySQL Server 5.0\share\charsets\ |......
13. +--------------------------+-------------------------------------+------

二、查看MySQL数据表（table）的MySQL字符集。

1. mysql> show table status from sqlstudy_db like '%countries%';
2. +-----------+--------+---------+------------+------+-----------------+------
3. | Name      | Engine | Version | Row_format | Rows | Collation       |......
4. +-----------+--------+---------+------------+------+-----------------+------
5. | countries | InnoDB |      10 | Compact    |   11 | utf8_general_ci |......
6. +-----------+--------+---------+------------+------+-----------------+------

三、查看MySQL数据列（column）的MySQL字符集。

1. mysql> show full columns from countries;
2. +----------------------+-------------+-----------------+--------
3. | Field                | Type        | Collation       | .......
4. +----------------------+-------------+-----------------+--------
5. | countries_id         | int(11)     | NULL            | .......
6. | countries_name       | varchar(64) | utf8_general_ci | .......
7. | countries_iso_code_2 | char(2)     | utf8_general_ci | .......
8. | countries_iso_code_3 | char(3)     | utf8_general_ci | .......
9. | address_format_id    | int(11)     | NULL            | .......
10. +----------------------+-------------+-----------------+--------