Table of Contents
- 9.1. Character Set Support
- 9.1.1. Character Sets and Collations in General
- 9.1.2. Character Sets and Collations in MySQL
- 9.1.3. Specifying Character Sets and Collations
- 9.1.4. Connection Character Sets and Collations
- 9.1.5. Configuring the Character Set and Collation for Applications
- 9.1.6. Character Set for Error Messages
- 9.1.7. Collation Issues
- 9.1.8. String Repertoire
- 9.1.9. Operations Affected by Character Set Support
- 9.1.10. Unicode Support
- 9.1.11. Upgrading from Previous to Current Unicode Support
- 9.1.12. UTF-8 for Metadata
- 9.1.13. Column Character Set Conversion
- 9.1.14. Character Sets and Collations That MySQL Supports
- 9.2. Setting the Error Message Language
- 9.3. Adding a New Character Set
- 9.4. How to Add a New Collation to a Character Set
- 9.5. Character Set Configuration
- 9.6. MySQL Server Time Zone Support
- 9.7. MySQL Server Locale Support
This chapter covers issues of internationalization (MySQL's capabilities for adapting to local use) and localization (selecting particular local conventions):
MySQL support for character sets in SQL statements.
How to configure the server to support different character sets.
Selecting the language for error messages.
How to set the server's time zone and enable per-connection time zone support.
Selecting the locale for day and month names.