The SET-CHARSET directive sets the encoding of the current data and then converts it from that to a UTF-8 string.

Syntax

 set-charset :column 'charset'

• column is the name of the column to be converted.

• charset is the charset to be used in converting the column.

Usage Notes

This directive sets the character set of column to charset. It decodes the column using that charset and converts it to a UTF-8 String.