mysql_client_encoding

Returns the name of the character set (PHP 4 >= 4.3.0)
int mysql_client_encoding ( [resource link_identifier] )

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

Example 585. mysql_client_encoding() example

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<?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:

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current character set is latin1

See also mysql_real_escape_string()

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