MySQL 乱码的根源是的 MySQL 字符集设置不当的问题,本文汇总了有关查看 MySQL 字符集的命令。包括查看 MySQL 数据库服务器字符集、查看 MySQL 数据库字符集,以及数据表和字段的字符集、当前安装的 MySQL 所支持的字符集等。 
一、查看 MySQL 数据库服务器和数据库字符集。 
mysql> show variables like '%char%';
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------+------
| Variable_name         | Value                    |......
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------+------
| character_set_client    | utf8                     |......   -- 客户端字符集 
| character_set_connection  | utf8                    |......
| character_set_database   | utf8                    |......   -- 数据库字符集 
| character_set_filesystem  | binary                   |......
| character_set_results    | utf8                    |......
| character_set_server     | utf8                    |......   -- 服务器字符集 
| character_set_system     | utf8                    |......
| character_sets_dir      | D:\MySQL Server 5.0\share\charsets\ |......
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------+------
二、查看 MySQL 数据表(table) 的字符集。 
mysql> show table status from sqlstudy_db like '%countries%';
+-----------+--------+---------+------------+------+-----------------+------
| Name    | Engine | Version | Row_format | Rows | Collation     |......
+-----------+--------+---------+------------+------+-----------------+------
| countries | InnoDB |    10 | Compact  |   11 | utf8_general_ci |......
+-----------+--------+---------+------------+------+-----------------+------
三、查看 MySQL 数据列(column)的字符集。 
mysql> show full columns from countries;
+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+--------
| Field           | Type     | Collation    | .......
+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+--------
| countries_id      | int(11)   | NULL         | .......
| countries_name     | varchar(64) | utf8_general_ci | .......
| countries_iso_code_2 | char(2)   | utf8_general_ci | .......
| countries_iso_code_3 | char(3)   | utf8_general_ci | .......
| address_format_id   | int(11)   | NULL        | .......
+----------------------+-------------+-----------------+--------
四、查看当前安装的 MySQL 所支持的字符集。 
mysql> show charset;
mysql> show char set;
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
| 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 |
| cp1251  | Windows Cyrillic        | cp1251_general_ci  |     1 |
| cp1256  | Windows Arabic         | cp1256_general_ci  |     1 |
| cp1257  | Windows Baltic         | cp1257_general_ci  |     1 |
| 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 |
+----------+-----------------------------+---------------------+--------+
以上查看 MySQL 字符集命令,适用于 Windows & Linux。 
四.修改表和字段的字符集 
//修改数据库 
mysql> alter database name character set utf8;
//修改表  
alter table 表名 convert to character set gbk; 
//修改字段 
alter table 表名 modify column '字段名' varchar(30) character set gbk not null; 
//添加表字段 
alter table 表名 add column '字段名' varchar (20) character set gbk; 
注:执行命令过程中字段名不加引号
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