MySQL Reference Manual for version 4.0.18.

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16.2 Character Sets and Collations in MySQL

A character set always has at least one collation. It may have several collations.

For example, character set latin1 ("ISO-8859-1 West European") has the following collations:

Collation Meaning
latin1_bin Binary according to latin1 encoding
latin1_danish_ci Danish/Norwegian
latin1_german1_ci German DIN-1
latin1_german2_ci German DIN-2
latin1_spanish_ci Modern Spanish
latin1_swedish_ci Swedish/Finnish
latin1_general_ci Multilingual

Notes:

Notice that there is a convention for collation names: They start with the name of the character set they are associated with, they usually include a language name, and they end with _ci (case insensitive), _cs (case sensitive), or _bin (binary).



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