2914 SHOW Statements 13.7.7.4 SHOW COLLATION Statement The  SHOW CHARACTER SET  statement shows all available character sets. The  LIKE  clause, if present, indicates which character set names to match. The  WHERE  clause can be given to select rows using more general conditions, as discussed in Section 26.8, “Extensions to SHOW Statements” . For example: SHOW CHARACTER SET  output has these columns: The character set name. A description of the character set. The default collation for the character set. The maximum number of bytes required to store one character. The  filename  character set is for internal use only; consequently,  SHOW CHARACTER SET  does not display it. Character set information is also available from the  INFORMATION_SCHEMA CHARACTER_SETS  table. See Section 26.3.4, “The INFORMATION_SCHEMA CHARACTER_SETS Table” . This statement lists collations supported by the server. By default, the output from  SHOW COLLATION includes all available collations. The  LIKE  clause, if present, indicates which collation names to match. The WHERE  clause can be given to select rows using more general conditions, as discussed in Section 26.8, “Extensions to SHOW Statements” . For example: SHOW COLLATION [LIKE ’ pattern ’ | WHERE  expr ] • Charset • Description • Default collation • Maxlen mysql>  SHOW COLLATION WHERE Charset = ’latin1’; +-------------------+---------+----+---------+----------+---------+ | Collation | Charset | Id | Default | Compiled | Sortlen | +-------------------+---------+----+---------+----------+---------+ | latin1_german1_ci | latin1 | 5 | | Yes | 1 | | latin1_swedish_ci | latin1 | 8 | Yes | Yes | 1 | | latin1_danish_ci | latin1 | 15 | | Yes | 1 | | latin1_german2_ci | latin1 | 31 | | Yes | 2 | | latin1_bin | latin1 | 47 | | Yes | 1 | | latin1_general_ci | latin1 | 48 | | Yes | 1 | | latin1_general_cs | latin1 | 49 | | Yes | 1 | | latin1_spanish_ci | latin1 | 94 | | Yes | 1 | +-------------------+---------+----+---------+----------+---------+ mysql>  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 | +---------+-----------------------------+-------------------+--------+