Modules/MTA-MySQL/mysql get character set info

	This function is provided by the external module MTA-MySQL. You must install this module to use this function.

Retreives information about a character set

Syntax

string, string, string, string, int, int mysql_get_character_set_info ( MySQLConnection handler, string character_set_name )

Required arguments

• handler: A valid MySQL link
• character_set_name: The character set name

Returns

The character set information:

• The charset name
• The charset collation
• The charset comment
• The charset directory
• Multi byte character min. length
• Multi byte character max. length

Example

Example 1:

local name, collation, comment, directory, mbminlen, mbmaxlen =
      mysql_get_character_set_info(handler, "utf8") -- We will return information about the charset "utf8"

outputDebugString("UTF-8 charset information:\n" ..
                  "name: " .. name .. "\n" ..
                  "collation: " .. collation .. "\n" ..
                  "comment: " .. comment .. "\n" ..
                  "directory: " .. directory .. "\n" ..
                  "mbminlen: " .. mbminlen .. "\n" ..
                  "mbmaxlen: " .. mbmaxlen)

See also

• mysql_connect
• mysql_close
• mysql_errno
• mysql_error
• mysql_ping
• mysql_select_db
• mysql_escape_string
• mysql_affected_rows
• mysql_change_user
• mysql_get_character_set_info
• mysql_get_client_info
• mysql_get_client_version
• mysql_get_host_info
• mysql_get_proto_info
• mysql_get_server_info
• mysql_get_server_version
• mysql_hex_string
• mysql_info
• mysql_insert_id
• mysql_query
• mysql_unbuffered_query
• mysql_set_character_set
• mysql_stat
• mysql_warning_count