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This chapter describes the languages MySQL supports, how sorting works in MySQL , and how to add new character sets to MySQL . You will also find information about maximum table sizes in this chapter. This is the character set used in the USA and western Europe. This will add code to all standard programs to be able to handle latin1 and all multi-byte character sets within the binary. Other character sets will be loaded from a character-set definition file when needed.