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mysql_client_encoding

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0)

mysql_client_encoding -- Returns the name of the character set

Description

string mysql_client_encoding ( [resource link_identifier])

mysql_client_encoding returns the default character set name for the current connection.

Example 1. mysql_client_encoding() example

<?php

$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');

$charset = mysql_client_encoding($link);

printf("current character set is %s\n", $charset);

?>

The above example would produce the following output:

current character set is latin1