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  <refentry id="function.mysql-client-encoding">
   <refnamediv>
    <refname>mysql_client_encoding</refname>
    <refpurpose>Returns the name of the character set</refpurpose>
   </refnamediv>
   <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
    <methodsynopsis>
     <type>string</type><methodname>mysql_client_encoding</methodname>
     <methodparam choice="opt"><type>resource</type><parameter>link_identifier</parameter></methodparam>
    </methodsynopsis>
    <para>
     <function>mysql_client_encoding</function> returns the default
     character set name for the current connection.
    </para>
    <para>
     <example>
      <title><function>mysql_client_encoding</function> example</title>
      <programlisting role="php">
<![CDATA[
<?php
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
$charset = mysql_client_encoding($link);
printf("current character set is %s\n", $charset);
?>
]]>
      </programlisting>
      <para>
       The above example would produce the following output:
      </para>
      <screen>
<![CDATA[
current character set is latin1
]]>
      </screen>
     </example>
    </para>
    <para>
     See also
     <function>mysql_real_escape_string</function>
    </para>
   </refsect1>
  </refentry>

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