您可以使用SET CHARACTER SET語句設置當前客戶端與服務端通信使用的字符集。該語句會將character_set_client和character_set_results設置為給定值，將character_set_connection設置為character_set_database的值。

語法

SET {CHARACTER SET | CHARSET}
    {'charset_name' | DEFAULT}
其中，charset_name可不加引號。

示例

SHOW SESSION VARIABLES LIKE 'character\_set\_%';
+--------------------------+---------+
| Variable_name            | Value   |
+--------------------------+---------+
| character_set_client     | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_connection | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_database   | utf8    |
| character_set_filesystem | binary  |
| character_set_results    | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_server     | utf8    |
| character_set_system     | utf8    |
+--------------------------+---------+
7 rows in set (0.01 sec)

SET CHARSET 'big5';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.06 sec)

SHOW SESSION VARIABLES LIKE 'character\_set\_%';
+--------------------------+--------+
| Variable_name            | Value  |
+--------------------------+--------+
| character_set_client     | big5   |
| character_set_connection | utf8   |
| character_set_database   | utf8   |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results    | big5   |
| character_set_server     | utf8   |
| character_set_system     | utf8   |
+--------------------------+--------+
7 rows in set (0.21 sec)