Unicode
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Unicode is a standard for encoding text across multiple writing systems. MariaDB 5.5 supports a number of character sets for storing Unicode data:
| Character Set | Description | Added |
|---|---|---|
| ucs2 | UCS-2, each character is represented by a 2-byte code with the most significant byte first. Fixed-length 16-bit encoding. | |
| utf8 | UTF-8 encoding using one to three bytes per character. Basic Latin letters, numbers and punctuation use one byte. European and Middle East letters mostly fit into 2 bytes. Korean, Chinese, and Japanese ideographs use 3-bytes. No supplementary characters are stored. | |
| utf8mb3 | Currently an alias for utf8. | MariaDB 5.5 |
| utf8mb4 | Same as utf8, but stores supplementary characters in four bytes. | MariaDB 5.5 |
| utf16 | UTF-16, same as ucs2, but stores supplementary characters in 32 bits. 16 or 32-bits. | MariaDB 5.5 |
| utf32 | UTF-32, fixed-length 32-bit encoding. | MariaDB 5.5 |
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