mysql_client_encoding

Description

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

See also mysql_real_escape_string()