MySQL 5.4 Reference Manual :: 9 Internationalization and Localization :: 9.1 Character Set Support :: 9.1.10 Unicode Support :: 9.1.10.1 The ucs2 Character Set (UCS-2 Unicode Encoding)
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- 9.1.10.1 The ucs2 Character Set (UCS-2 Unicode Encoding)
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In UCS-2, every character is represented by a two-byte Unicode
code with the most significant byte first. For example:
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A has the code
0x0041 and it is stored as a two-byte
sequence: 0x00 0x41. CYRILLIC
SMALL LETTER YERU (Unicode
0x044B) is stored as a two-byte sequence:
0x04 0x4B. For Unicode characters and their
codes, please refer to the
Unicode Home
Page.
In MySQL, the ucs2 character set is a
fixed-length 16-bit encoding for Unicode BMP characters.
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