SHOW CHARACTER SET syntaxΒΆ
SHOW CHARACTER SET
This is currently a placeholder query that does nothing and reports that a UTF-8 character set is available. It was added in order to keep compatibility with frameworks and connectors that automatically execute this statement.
mysql> SHOW CHARACTER SET;
+---------+---------------+-------------------+--------+
| Charset | Description | Default collation | Maxlen |
+---------+---------------+-------------------+--------+
| utf8 | UTF-8 Unicode | utf8_general_ci | 3 |
+---------+---------------+-------------------+--------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)