Oracle 5.0, Reference Manual

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Server System Variables
443
occurs. For systems on which multi-byte file names are permitted, a different value may
be more appropriate. For example, if the system represents file names using UTF-8, set
character_set_filesystem
[442] to
'utf8'
. This variable was added in MySQL 5.0.19.
•
character_set_results
[443]
Variable Name
character_set_results
Variable Scope Global, Session
Dynamic Variable Yes
Permitted Values
Type
string
The character set used for returning query results such as result sets or error messages to the client.
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character_set_server
[443]
Command-Line Format
--character-set-server
Option-File Format
character-set-server
Option Sets Variable Yes,
character_set_server
[443]
Variable Name
character_set_server
Variable Scope Global, Session
Dynamic Variable Yes
Permitted Values
Type
string
The server's default character set.
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character_set_system
[443]
Variable Name
character_set_system
Variable Scope Global
Dynamic Variable No
Permitted Values
Type
string
The character set used by the server for storing identifiers. The value is always
utf8
.
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character_sets_dir
[443]
Command-Line Format
--character-sets-dir=path
Option-File Format
character-sets-dir=path
Option Sets Variable Yes,
character_sets_dir
[443]
Variable Name
character-sets-dir
Variable Scope Global
Dynamic Variable No
Permitted Values
Type
directory name
The directory where character sets are installed.
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collation_connection
[443]