Get default character set for the database connection in PHP
Description
The following code shows how to get default character set for the database connection.
Example
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<?php
$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","","test");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno()){
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}
$charset=mysqli_character_set_name($con);
echo "Default character set is: " . $charset;
mysqli_close($con);
?>
The code above generates the following result.
