diff --git a/htdocs/admin/system/database.php b/htdocs/admin/system/database.php
index 3ed46ca33a1..706ee91f38a 100644
--- a/htdocs/admin/system/database.php
+++ b/htdocs/admin/system/database.php
@@ -57,8 +57,16 @@ print '<tr class="oddeven"><td width="300">'.$langs->trans("DriverType").'</td><
 // @phan-suppress-next-line PhanTypeSuspiciousStringExpression  (user is defined in the stdClass)
 print '<tr class="oddeven"><td width="300">'.$langs->trans("User").'</td><td>'.$conf->db->user.'</td></tr>'."\n";
 print '<tr class="oddeven"><td width="300">'.$langs->trans("Password").'</td><td>'.preg_replace('/./i', '*', $dolibarr_main_db_pass).'</td></tr>'."\n";
-print '<tr class="oddeven"><td width="300">'.$langs->trans("DBStoringCharset").'</td><td>'.$db->getDefaultCharacterSetDatabase().'</td></tr>'."\n";
-print '<tr class="oddeven"><td width="300">'.$langs->trans("DBSortingCharset").'</td><td>'.$db->getDefaultCollationDatabase().'</td></tr>'."\n";
+print '<tr class="oddeven"><td width="300">'.$langs->trans("DBStoringCharset").'</td><td>'.$db->getDefaultCharacterSetDatabase();
+if ($db->type == 'mysqli') {
+	print ' '.$form->textwithpicto('', $langs->transnoentitiesnoconv("HelpMariaDBToGetPossibleValues", "SHOW CHARACTER SET"));
+}
+print '</td></tr>'."\n";
+print '<tr class="oddeven"><td width="300">'.$langs->trans("DBSortingCharset").'</td><td>'.$db->getDefaultCollationDatabase();
+if ($db->type == 'mysqli') {
+	print ' '.$form->textwithpicto('', $langs->transnoentitiesnoconv("HelpMariaDBToGetPossibleValues", "SHOW COLLATION"));
+}
+print '</td></tr>'."\n";
 print '</table>';
 print '</div>';
 
diff --git a/htdocs/langs/en_US/admin.lang b/htdocs/langs/en_US/admin.lang
index 7b08eb85291..24065c6af26 100644
--- a/htdocs/langs/en_US/admin.lang
+++ b/htdocs/langs/en_US/admin.lang
@@ -2555,3 +2555,4 @@ MenuDict=Dictionary
 AddMoreParams=Add more parameters for connection (cookies, tokens, ...)<br> Example: token : value token
 ParamName=Name of parameter
 ParamValue=Value of parameter
+HelpMariaDBToGetPossibleValues=You can get a list of possible values by running the following SQL command: %s