er, database, table and column levels. Examples -------- SHOW CHARACTER SET LIKE 'latin%'; +---------+-----------------------------+-------------------+--------+ | Charset | Description | Default collation | Maxlen | +---------+-----------------------------+-------------------+--------+ | latin1 | cp1252 West European | latin1_swedish_ci | 1 | | latin2 | ISO 8859-2 Central European | latin2_general_ci | 1 | | latin5 | ISO 8859-9 Turkish | latin5_turkish_ci | 1 | | latin7 | ISO 8859-13 Baltic | latin7_general_ci | 1 | +---------+-----------------------------+-------------------+--------+ SHOW CHARACTER SET WHERE Maxlen LIKE '2'; +---------+---------------------------+-------------------+--------+ | Charset | Description | Default collation | Maxlen | +---------+---------------------------+-------------------+--------+ | big5 | Big5 Traditional Chinese | big5_chinese_ci | 2 | | sjis | Shift-JIS Japanese | sjis_japanese_ci | 2 | | euckr | EUC-KR Korean | euckr_korean_ci | 2 | | gb2312 | GB2312 Simplified Chinese | gb2312_chinese_ci | 2 | | gbk | GBK Simplified Chinese | gbk_chinese_ci | 2 | | ucs2 | UCS-2 Unicode | ucs2_general_ci | 2 | | cp932 | SJIS for Windows Japanese | cp932_japanese_ci | 2 | +---------+---------------------------+-------------------+--------+ URL: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/show-character-set/https://mariadb.com/kb/en/show-character-set/