The Information Schema COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY table shows which character sets are associated with which collations.

It contains the following columns:

COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY is essentially a subset of the COLLATIONS table.

SELECT COLLATION_NAME,CHARACTER_SET_NAME FROM information_schema.COLLATIONS;

and

SELECT * FROM information_schema.COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY;

will return identical results.

See Setting Character Sets and Collations for details on specifying the character set at the server, database, table and column levels.

Example

SELECT * FROM information_schema.COLLATION_CHARACTER_SET_APPLICABILITY 
WHERE CHARACTER_SET_NAME='utf32';
+---------------------+--------------------+
| COLLATION_NAME      | CHARACTER_SET_NAME |
+---------------------+--------------------+
| utf32_general_ci    | utf32              |
| utf32_bin           | utf32              |
| utf32_unicode_ci    | utf32              |
| utf32_icelandic_ci  | utf32              |
| utf32_latvian_ci    | utf32              |
| utf32_romanian_ci   | utf32              |
| utf32_slovenian_ci  | utf32              |
| utf32_polish_ci     | utf32              |
| utf32_estonian_ci   | utf32              |
| utf32_spanish_ci    | utf32              |
| utf32_swedish_ci    | utf32              |
| utf32_turkish_ci    | utf32              |
| utf32_czech_ci      | utf32              |
| utf32_danish_ci     | utf32              |
| utf32_lithuanian_ci | utf32              |
| utf32_slovak_ci     | utf32              |
| utf32_spanish2_ci   | utf32              |
| utf32_roman_ci      | utf32              |
| utf32_persian_ci    | utf32              |
| utf32_esperanto_ci  | utf32              |
| utf32_hungarian_ci  | utf32              |
| utf32_sinhala_ci    | utf32              |
| utf32_german2_ci    | utf32              |
| utf32_croatian_ci   | utf32              |
+---------------------+--------------------+