Using Chinese Characters to Name MySQL Tables

Question

What precautions must be taken to use Chinese characters as MySQL table names?

Thanks in advance,

John

Answer 1

SQL supports delimited identifiers to allow table or column names to contain SQL keywords, whitespace, punctuation, other special characters, or international characters.

In MySQL, use back-quotes (or set the ANSI_QUOTES SQL mode to use standard double-quotes).

Example:

mysql> create table `桌子` (id serial);
mysql> show create table `桌子`\G
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show create table `桌子`
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*************************** 1. row ***************************
       Table: 桌子
Create Table: CREATE TABLE `桌子` (
  `id` bigint(20) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
1 row in set (0.00 sec)