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# mysql_client_encoding

(PHP 4 CVS only)

mysql_client_encoding -- Returns the name of the character set

## Description

int 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

See also: mysql_real_escape_string()

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