mysql> SHOW CHARACTER SET;+-------
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------------------+| Charset | Description | D
efault collation |+----------+----------------
-------------+---------------------+| big5 | B
ig5 Traditional Chinese | big5_chinese_ci || d
ec8 | DEC West European | dec8_swedish_ci || c
p850 | DOS West European | cp850_general_ci ||
 hp8 | HP West European | hp8_english_ci || ko
i8r | KOI8-R Relcom Russian | koi8r_general_ci
 || latin1 | cp1252 West European | latin1_swe
dish_ci || latin2 | ISO 8859-2 Central Europea
n | latin2_general_ci || swe7 | 7bit Swedish |
 swe7_swedish_ci || ascii | US ASCII | ascii_g
eneral_ci || ujis | EUC-JP Japanese | ujis_jap
anese_ci || sjis | Shift-JIS Japanese | sjis_
japanese_ci || hebrew | ISO 8859-8 Hebrew | h
ebrew_general_ci || tis620 | TIS620 Thai | ti
s620_thai_ci || euckr | EUC-KR Korean | euckr
_korean_ci || koi8u | KOI8-U Ukrainian | ko
i8u_general_ci || gb2312 | GB2312 Simplifie
d Chinese | gb2312_chinese_ci || greek | IS
O 8859-7 Greek | greek_general_ci || cp1250
 | Windows Central European | cp1250_genera
l_ci || gbk | GBK Simplified Chinese | gbk_
chinese_ci || latin5 | ISO 8859-9 Turkish |
 latin5_turkish_ci || armscii8 | ARMSCII-8 

Armenian | armscii8_general_ci || utf8 | UT

F-8 Unicode | utf8_general_ci || ucs2 | UCS

-2 Unicode | ucs2_general_ci || cp866 | DOS

 Russian | cp866_general_ci || keybcs2 | DO

S Kamenicky Czech-Slovak | keybcs2_general_

ci || macce | Mac Central European | macce_

general_ci || macroman | Mac West European 

| macroman_general_ci || cp852 | DOS Centra

l European | cp852_general_ci || latin7 | I

SO 8859-13 Baltic | latin7_general_ci || cp

1251 | Windows Cyrillic | cp1251_general_ci

 || cp1256 | Windows Arabic | cp1256_genera

l_ci || cp1257 | Windows Baltic | cp1257_ge

neral_ci || binary | Binary pseudo charset 

| binary || geostd8 | GEOSTD8 Georgian | ge

ostd8_general_ci || cp932 | SJIS for Window

s Japanese | cp932_japanese_ci || eucjpms |

 UJIS for Windows Japanese | eucjpms_japane

se_ci |+----------+------------------------

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