find / -iname '*.cnf' -print
/usr/share/mysql/my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf
/usr/share/mysql/my-large.cnf
/usr/share/mysql/my-small.cnf
/usr/share/mysql/my-medium.cnf
/usr/share/mysql/my-huge.cnf
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/xmltexfmtutil.cnf
/usr/share/texmf/tex/jadetex/jadefmtutil.cnf
/usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-community-5.1.22/my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf
/usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-community-5.1.22/my-large.cnf
/usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-community-5.1.22/my-small.cnf
/usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-community-5.1.22/my-medium.cnf
/usr/share/doc/MySQL-server-community-5.1.22/my-huge.cnf
2. 拷貝 small.cnf、my-medium.cnf、my-huge.cnf、my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf其中的一個到/etc下，命名爲my.cnf
cp /usr/share/mysql/my-medium.cnf /etc/my.cnf
3. 修改my.cnf
vi /etc/my.cnf
在[client]下添加
default-character-set=utf8
在[mysqld]下添加
default-character-set=utf8
4.重新啓動MySQL
[root@bogon ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql restart
Shutting down MySQL [ 確定 ]
Starting MySQL. [ 確定 ]
[root@bogon ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1
Server version: 5.1.22-rc-community-log MySQL Community Edition (GPL)
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
5.查看字符集設置
mysql> show variables like 'collation_%';
+----------------------+-----------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+----------------------+-----------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_server | utf8_general_ci |
+----------------------+-----------------+
3 rows in set (0.02 sec)
mysql> show variables like 'character_set_%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.02 sec)
mysql>
其他的一些設置方法：
修改數據庫的字符集
mysql>use mydb
mysql>alter database mydb character set utf-8;
創建數據庫指定數據庫的字符集
mysql>create database mydb character set utf-8;
通過配置文件修改:
修改/var/lib/mysql/mydb/db.opt
default-character-set=latin1
default-collation=latin1_swedish_ci
爲
default-character-set=utf8
default-collation=utf8_general_ci
重起MySQL:
[root@bogon ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql restart
通過MySQL命令行修改:
mysql> set character_set_client=utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> set character_set_connection=utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> set character_set_database=utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> set character_set_results=utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> set character_set_server=utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> set character_set_system=utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> set collation_connection=utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> set collation_database=utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> set collation_server=utf8;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
查看:
mysql> show variables like 'character_set_%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.03 sec)
mysql> show variables like 'collation_%';
+----------------------+-----------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+----------------------+-----------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_server | utf8_general_ci |
+----------------------+-----------------+
3 rows in set (0.04 sec)
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【知識性文章轉載】
MYSQL 字符集問題
MySQL的字符集支持(Character Set Support)有兩個方面：
字符集(Character set)和排序方式(Collation)。
對於字符集的支持細化到四個層次:
服務器(server)，數據庫(database)，數據表(table)和連接(connection)。
1.MySQL默認字符集
MySQL對於字符集的指定可以細化到一個數據庫，一張表，一列，應該用什麼字符集。
但是，傳統的程序在創建數據庫和數據表時並沒有使用那麼複雜的配置，它們用的是默認的配置，那麼，默認的配置從何而來呢？ (1)編譯MySQL 時，指定了一個默認的字符集，這個字符集是 latin1；
(2)安裝MySQL 時，可以在配置文件 (my.ini) 中指定一個默認的的字符集，如果沒指定，這個值繼承自編譯時指定的；
(3)啓動mysqld 時，可以在命令行參數中指定一個默認的的字符集，如果沒指定，這個值繼承自配置文件中的配置,此時 character_set_server 被設定爲這個默認的字符集；
(4)當創建一個新的數據庫時，除非明確指定，這個數據庫的字符集被缺省設定爲character_set_server；
(5)當選定了一個數據庫時，character_set_database 被設定爲這個數據庫默認的字符集；
(6)在這個數據庫裏創建一張表時，表默認的字符集被設定爲 character_set_database，也就是這個數據庫默認的字符集；
(7)當在表內設置一欄時，除非明確指定，否則此欄缺省的字符集就是表默認的字符集；
簡單的總結一下，如果什麼地方都不修改，那麼所有的數據庫的所有表的所有欄位的都用
latin1 存儲，不過我們如果安裝 MySQL，一般都會選擇多語言支持，也就是說，安裝程序會自動在配置文件中把
default_character_set 設置爲 UTF-8，這保證了缺省情況下，所有的數據庫的所有表的所有欄位的都用 UTF-8 存儲。
2.查看默認字符集(默認情況下，mysql的字符集是latin1(ISO_8859_1)
通常，查看系統的字符集和排序方式的設定可以通過下面的兩條命令：
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character%';
+--------------------------+---------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------+
| character_set_client | latin1 |
| character_set_connection | latin1 |
| character_set_database | latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | latin1 |
| character_set_server | latin1 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | D:"mysql-5.0.37"share"charsets" |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------+
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'collation_%';
+----------------------+-----------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+----------------------+-----------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_server | utf8_general_ci |
+----------------------+-----------------+
3.修改默認字符集
(1) 最簡單的修改方法，就是修改mysql的my.ini文件中的字符集鍵值，
如 default-character-set = utf8
character_set_server = utf8
修改完後，重啓mysql的服務，service mysql restart
使用 mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character%';查看，發現數據庫編碼均已改成utf8
+--------------------------+---------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | D:"mysql-5.0.37"share"charsets" |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------+
(2) 另一種修改字符集的方法，就是使用mysql的命令
mysql> SET character_set_client = utf8 ;
4.mysql版本引起的問題
可以通過以下步驟修改：
$sudo gedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf
在裏面
[client]下添加：
default-character-set=utf8
注意：5.5以後的版本對字符編碼方式修改的辦法，才發現原來在[mysqld]下的修改已經發生了變化
正確方式如下：
[mysqld]下添加的應該爲：
character-set-server=utf8
collation-server=utf8_general_ci