Name

mysql_client_encoding( )

Synopsis

mysql_client_encoding([connection])

This returns the name of the default character set for the current MySQL connection or, if connection is supplied, for that connection.

...
$info = mysql_client_encoding( );
print "Encoding in Use: $info \n";
...

Here are the results of this script on my computer:

Encoding in Use:  latin1

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