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Character Sets

GaussDB allows you to specify the following character sets for databases, schemas, tables, or columns.

Table 1 Character sets

MySQL

GaussDB

utf8mb4

Supported.

gbk

Supported.

gb18030

Supported.

Currently, GaussDB does not perform strict encoding logic verification on invalid characters that do not belong to the current character set. As a result, such invalid characters may be successfully entered. However, an error is reported during verification in MySQL.

Parent topic: MySQL-compatible Mode