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Description

int mysql_character_set_name ( [resource link_identifier])

mysql_character_set_name() returns the default character set name for the current connection.

Exemple 1. mysql_character_set_name() example

<?php
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
$charset = mysql_character_set_name($link);
printf ("current character set is %s\n", $charset);
?>

The above example would produce the following output:
latin1