PHP pg_client_encoding function

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pg_client_encoding

(PHP 3 CVS only, PHP 4 >= 4.0.3, PHP 5)

PostgreSQL supports automatic character set conversion between
server and client for certain character sets.
pg_client_encoding() 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() always returns
SQL_ASCII. Supported encoding depends on PostgreSQL
version. Refer to the PostgreSQL Documentation supported encodings.

The function used to be called pg_clientencoding().

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() or pg_pconnect().

The client encoding, or FALSE on error.

Example 1. pg_client_encoding() example

// Assume $conn is a connection to a ISO-8859-1 database
$encoding = pg_client_encoding($conn);
 
echo "Client encoding is: ", $encoding, "\n";

The above example will output: