SHOW CHARSET¶

The SHOW CHARSET statement shows the available character sets.

Currently available types are utf8 and utf8mb4. The default charset type is utf8. Nebula Graph extends the uft8 to support four-byte characters. Therefore utf8 and utf8mb4 are equivalent.

Syntax¶

SHOW CHARSET

Example¶

nebula> SHOW CHARSET;
+---------+-----------------+-------------------+--------+
| Charset | Description     | Default collation | Maxlen |
+---------+-----------------+-------------------+--------+
| "utf8"  | "UTF-8 Unicode" | "utf8_bin"        | 4      |
+---------+-----------------+-------------------+--------+
Got 1 rows (time spent 527/1269 us)

The output of SHOW CHARSET is explained as follows:

Column	Description
`Charset`	The character set name.
`Description`	A description of the character set.
`Default collation`	The default collation for the character set.
`Maxlen`	The maximum number of bytes required to store one character.

Last update: December 31, 2020