SHOW CHARACTER SET syntax

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)