PG_CLIENT_ENCODING(3)													     PG_CLIENT_ENCODING(3)

pg_client_encoding - Gets the client encoding

SYNOPSIS

       string pg_client_encoding ([resource  $connection])

DESCRIPTION

	PostgreSQL supports automatic character set conversion between server and client for certain character sets. pg_client_encoding(3) returns
       the client encoding as a string. The returned string will be one of the standard PostgreSQL encoding identifiers.

       Note

	       This function requires PHP 4.0.3 or higher and PostgreSQL 7.0 or higher. If libpq is compiled without multibyte	encoding  support,
	      pg_client_encoding(3) always returns SQL_ASCII. Supported encoding depends on PostgreSQL version. Refer to the PostgreSQL Documenta-
	      tion supported encodings.

	       The function used to be called pg_clientencoding(3).

PARAMETERS

	      o $connection
		- PostgreSQL database connection resource. When $connection is not present, the default connection is used. The default connection
		is the last connection made by pg_connect(3) or pg_pconnect(3).

RETURN VALUES

	The client encoding, or FALSE on error.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      pg_client_encoding(3) example

	      <?php
	      // Assume $conn is a connection to a ISO-8859-1 database
	      $encoding = pg_client_encoding($conn);

	      echo "Client encoding is: ", $encoding, "
";
	      ?>

	      The above example will output:

	      Client encoding is: ISO-8859-1

SEE ALSO

       pg_set_client_encoding(3).

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