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# mysql_client_encoding

(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)

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

See also mysql_real_escape_string()

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