From: Martijn Tonies
Date: January 6 2004 3:15pm
Subject: Re: Current server charset?
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Hi Tobias,


> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Martijn Tonies wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > In MySQL 4.1, is there a function to know what the
> > current default server-wide characterset is?
>
> You can find all those with:
> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%'

Thanks, that'll do the trick.

Is there any reason why variable "character-sets-dir"
is with "-" instead of "_"s?

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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