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Re: [PHP-DB] Where does the mysqli extension find the default connection

Georg Richter

2007-05-02, 6:57 pm

Jean-Noël Rivasseau wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I'd like to know which configuration file or setting is used by PHP mysqli
> extension to know the default charset connection to the database.

mysqli (and also mysql) extension uses the default character set for
libmysql This can be package dependend: Several distros deliver utf8 as
default, others latin1.

To be on the safe side, you should call mysqli_set_charset($link,
"utf8/latin1/whatever) to set the character set for each connection.

/Georg
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