NATIONAL CHAR VARYING

NATIONAL CHAR VARYING is a synonym for VARCHAR that uses the predefined utf8 character set.

Overview

See NATIONAL VARCHAR.

EXAMPLES

CREATE TABLE national_char_varying_example (
  example NATIONAL CHAR VARYING(32)
);

SHOW CREATE TABLE national_char_varying_example\G

*************************** 1. row ***************************
       Table: national_char_varying_example
Create Table: CREATE TABLE `national_char_varying_example` (
  `example` varchar(32) CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1

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