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  <refentry id="function.mysqli-character-set-name">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>mysqli_character_set_name</refname>
    <refname>mysqli->character_set_name</refname>
    <refpurpose>Returns the default character set for the database connection</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
     <para>Procedural style:</para>
     <methodsynopsis>
      <type>string</type><methodname>mysqli_character_set_name</methodname>
      <methodparam><type>mysqli</type><parameter>link</parameter></methodparam>
     </methodsynopsis>
     <para>Object oriented style (method):</para>
     <classsynopsis>
      <ooclass><classname>mysqli</classname></ooclass>
      <methodsynopsis>
       <type>string</type><methodname>character_set_name</methodname>
       <void />
      </methodsynopsis>
     </classsynopsis>
    <para>
     Returns the current character set for the database connection specified by the
     <parameter>link</parameter> parameter.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
    &reftitle.returnvalues;
    <para>The default character set for the current connection</para>
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
    &reftitle.seealso;
    <para>
     <function>mysqli_client_encoding</function>&listendand;
     <function>mysqli_real_escape_string</function>.
    </para>
   </refsect1>
   <refsect1>
    &reftitle.examples;
    <example>
     <title>Object oriented style</title>
     <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?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();
?>
]]>
    </programlisting>
    </example>
    <example>
     <title>Procedural style</title>
     <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?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);
?>
]]>
     </programlisting>
    </example>
    &example.outputs;
    <screen>
<![CDATA[
Current character set is latin1_swedish_ci
]]>
    </screen>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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