Introduction to MySQL Character Sets and Collation

What is a character set and what is collation? A character set is a set of symbols and encodings, whereas, collation is a set of rules to compare characte...

Character sets in MySQL

MYSQL supports multiple character sets such as Chinese, Russian, Latin, Korean ?etc. The character sets supported by MYSQL can be viewed using SHOW CHARACTER SET; statemen...

Collation in MySQL

The collation represents the set of rules to compare the characters in a character set....