void mysql_get_character_set_info(MYSQL *mysql,
MY_CHARSET_INFO *cs)
Description
This function provides information about the default client
character set. The default character set may be changed with the
mysql_set_character_set()
function.
Example
This example shows the fields that are available in the
MY_CHARSET_INFO
structure:
if (!mysql_set_character_set(&mysql, "utf8")) { MY_CHARSET_INFO cs; mysql_get_character_set_info(&mysql, &cs); printf("character set information:\n"); printf("character set+collation number: %d\n", cs.number); printf("character set name: %s\n", cs.name); printf("collation name: %s\n", cs.csname); printf("comment: %s\n", cs.comment); printf("directory: %s\n", cs.dir); printf("multi byte character min. length: %d\n", cs.mbminlen); printf("multi byte character max. length: %d\n", cs.mbmaxlen); }
User Comments
Some of the string members of MY_CHARSET_INFO can be NULL, particularly dir.
csname and name seem to be reversed from what the documentation and mysql.h say: In my tests, csname has the character set name and name has the collation.
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