mysqli_character_set_name
    (PHP 5)
mysqli_character_set_name
    (no version information, might be only in CVS)
mysqli->character_set_name -- Returns the default character set for the database connection
Description
Procedural style:
string 
mysqli_character_set_name ( object link)
Object oriented style (method):
class 
mysqli { 
string 
character_set_name ( void )
}
     Returns the current character set for the database connection specified by the
     link parameter.
    
Return values
The default character set for the current connection
Example
Beispiel 1. Object oriented style 
<?php /* Open a connection */ $mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");                                                                                /* check connection */ if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {     printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());     exit(); }
  /* Print current character set */ $charset = $mysqli->character_set_name(); printf ("Current character set is %s\n", $charset);
  $mysqli->close(); ?>
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Beispiel 2. Procedural style 
<?php /* Open a connection */ $link = mysqli_connect("localhost", "my_user", "my_password", "world");                                                                                /* check connection */ if (!$link) {     printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());     exit(); }
  /* Print current character set */ $charset = mysqli_character_set_name($link); printf ("Current character set is %s\n",$charset);
  /* close connection */ mysqli_close($link); ?>
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     The above examples would be produce the following output: 
    
Current character set is latin1_swedish_ci  |