MySQL Charsets
Running `SHOW CHARACTER SET` as an SQL Statement returns the following:
Charset Description Default collation Maxlen
big5 Big5 Traditional Chinese big5_chinese_ci 2
dec8 DEC West European dec8_swedish_ci 1
cp850 DOS West European cp850_general_ci 1
hp8 HP West European hp8_english_ci 1
koi8r KOI8-R Relcom Russian koi8r_general_ci 1
latin1 cp1252 West European latin1_swedish_ci 1
latin2 ISO 8859-2 Central European latin2_general_ci 1
swe7 7bit Swedish swe7_swedish_ci 1
ascii US ASCII ascii_general_ci 1
ujis EUC-JP Japanese ujis_japanese_ci 3
sjis Shift-JIS Japanese sjis_japanese_ci 2
hebrew ISO 8859-8 Hebrew hebrew_general_ci 1
tis620 TIS620 Thai tis620_thai_ci 1
euckr EUC-KR Korean euckr_korean_ci 2
koi8u KOI8-U Ukrainian koi8u_general_ci 1
gb2312 GB2312 Simplified Chinese gb2312_chinese_ci 2
greek ISO 8859-7 Greek greek_general_ci 1
cp1250 Windows Central European cp1250_general_ci 1
gbk GBK Simplified Chinese gbk_chinese_ci 2
latin5 ISO 8859-9 Turkish latin5_turkish_ci 1
armscii8 ARMSCII-8 Armenian armscii8_general_ci 1
utf8 UTF-8 Unicode utf8_general_ci 3
ucs2 UCS-2 Unicode ucs2_general_ci 2
cp866 DOS Russian cp866_general_ci 1
keybcs2 DOS Kamenicky Czech-Slovak keybcs2_general_ci 1
macce Mac Central European macce_general_ci 1
macroman Mac West European macroman_general_ci 1
cp852 DOS Central European cp852_general_ci 1
latin7 ISO 8859-13 Baltic latin7_general_ci 1
utf8mb4 UTF-8 Unicode utf8mb4_general_ci 4
cp1251 Windows Cyrillic cp1251_general_ci 1
utf16 UTF-16 Unicode utf16_general_ci 4
utf16le UTF-16LE Unicode utf16le_general_ci 4
cp1256 Windows Arabic cp1256_general_ci 1
cp1257 Windows Baltic cp1257_general_ci 1
utf32 UTF-32 Unicode utf32_general_ci 4
binary Binary pseudo charset binary 1
geostd8 GEOSTD8 Georgian geostd8_general_ci 1
cp932 SJIS for Windows Japanese cp932_japanese_ci 2
eucjpms UJIS for Windows Japanese eucjpms_japanese_ci 3
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"When in doubt, use utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci as it offers the greatest number of characters that you can store, and it sorts characters in the most correct way possible."
"utf8mb4 has become the default character set, with utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci as the default collation in MySQL 8.0.1 and later."