Overview

A character set is a set of symbols and their encodings. A collation is a set of rules for comparing characters in a character set.

seekdb supports the following character set and collation features:

• Store strings in various character sets.

• Compare strings in various collations.

• Mix strings with different character sets or collations in the same server, database, or table.

• Enable character set and collation specifications at the database, table, or column level.