Name

CHARSET( )

Synopsis

CHARSET(string)

This function returns the character set used by a given string. This function is available as of Version 4.1.0 of MySQL.

SELECT CHARSET('test');
+-----------------+
| CHARSET('test') |
+-----------------+
|          latin1 |
+-----------------+

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