此函数提供客户端默认字符集的信息。方法可以更改默认字符集mysql_set_character_set ()函数。

控件中可用的字段MY_CHARSET_INFO结构:

如果(!mysql_set_character_set(&mysql, "utf8")) { MY_CHARSET_INFO cs; mysql_get_character_set_info(&mysql, &cs); printf("character set information:\n"); printf("character set+collation number: %d\n", cs.number); printf("character set name: %s\n", cs.name); printf("collation name: %s\n", cs.csname); printf("comment: %s\n", cs.comment); printf("directory: %s\n", cs.dir); printf("multi byte character min. length: %d\n", cs.mbminlen); printf("multi byte character max. length: %d\n", cs.mbmaxlen); }