linux下修改mysql默认字符编码

/etc/init.d/mysql start (stop) 为启动和停止服务器
/etc/mysql/ 主要配置文件所在位置 my.cnf
/var/lib/mysql/ 放置的是数据库表文件夹，这里的mysql相当于windows下mysql的date文件夹

启动mysql后，以root登录mysql
[root@localhost ~]# mysql -u root  -p  #根据提示输入密码
>show variables like 'character%'; #执行编码显示
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | latin1 |
| character_set_connection | latin1 |
| character_set_database | latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | latin1 |
| character_set_server | latin1 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+

 
在linux下修改/etc/mysql/my.cnf文件

找到客户端配置[client] 在下面添加
default-character-set=utf8 默认字符集为utf8
在找到[mysqld] 添加
default-character-set=utf8 默认字符集为utf8
init_connect='SET NAMES utf8' （设定连接mysql数据库时使用utf8编码，以让mysql数据库为utf8运行）

修改好后，重新启动mysql 即可，查询一下show variables like 'character%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+



此方法用于标准mysql版本同样有效，对于/etc/my.cnf文件，需要从mysql/support-files的文件夹cp my-large.cnf一份到/etc/my.cnf