All Available Character Sets in MariaDB

The following table is a full list of character sets available in MariaDB.

Character Sets Description Default Collation
big5 Big5 Traditional Chinese big5_chinese_ci
dec8 DEC West European dec8_swedish_ci
cp850 DOS West European cp850_general_ci
hp8 HP West European hp8_english_ci
koi8r KOI8-R Relcom Russian koi8r_general_ci
latin1 cp1252 West European latin1_swedish_ci
latin2 ISO 8859-2 Central European latin2_general_ci
swe7 7bit Swedish swe7_swedish_ci
ascii US ASCII ascii_general_ci
ujis EUC-JP Japanese ujis_japanese_ci
sjis Shift-JIS Japanese sjis_japanese_ci
hebrew ISO 8859-8 Hebrew hebrew_general_ci
tis620 TIS620 Thai tis620_thai_ci
euckr EUC-KR Korean euckr_korean_ci
koi8u KOI8-U Ukrainian koi8u_general_ci
gb2312 GB2312 Simplified Chinese gb2312_chinese_ci
greek ISO 8859-7 Greek greek_general_ci
cp1250 Windows Central European cp1250_general_ci
gbk GBK Simplified Chinese gbk_chinese_ci
latin5 ISO 8859-9 Turkish latin5_turkish_ci
armscii8 ARMSCII-8 Armenian armscii8_general_ci
utf8 UTF-8 Unicode utf8_general_ci
ucs2 UCS-2 Unicode ucs2_general_ci
cp866 DOS Russian cp866_general_ci
keybcs2 DOS Kamenicky Czech-Slovak keybcs2_general_ci
macce Mac Central European macce_general_ci
macroman Mac West European macroman_general_ci
cp852 DOS Central European cp852_general_ci
latin7 ISO 8859-13 Baltic latin7_general_ci
utf8mb4 UTF-8 Unicode utf8mb4_general_ci
cp1251 Windows Cyrillic cp1251_general_ci
utf16 UTF-16 Unicode utf16_general_ci
utf16le UTF-16LE Unicode utf16le_general_ci
cp1256 Windows Arabic cp1256_general_ci
cp1257 Windows Baltic cp1257_general_ci
utf32 UTF-32 Unicode utf32_general_ci
binary Binary pseudo charset binary
geostd8 GEOSTD8 Georgian geostd8_general_ci
cp932 SJIS for Windows Japanese cp932_japanese_ci
eucjpms UJIS for Windows Japanese eucjpms_japanese_ci

You can asle get the full list of character sets by running the following command:

SHOW CHARACTER SET;

Output:

+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
| 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 |
| utf8mb4  | UTF-8 Unicode               | utf8mb4_general_ci  |      4 |
| cp1251   | Windows Cyrillic            | cp1251_general_ci   |      1 |
| utf16    | UTF-16 Unicode              | utf16_general_ci    |      4 |
| utf16le  | UTF-16LE Unicode            | utf16le_general_ci  |      4 |
| cp1256   | Windows Arabic              | cp1256_general_ci   |      1 |
| cp1257   | Windows Baltic              | cp1257_general_ci   |      1 |
| utf32    | UTF-32 Unicode              | utf32_general_ci    |      4 |
| 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 |
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
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