Name
COLLATION()
Synopsis
COLLATION(string)This function returns the collation for the character set of a given string. This function is available as of version 4.1.0 of MySQL. Here is an example:
SELECT COLLATION('Rosá');
+--------------------+
| COLLATION('Rosá') |
+--------------------+
| utf8_general_ci |
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