mysql_get_c...er_set_info(3)

💖 mysql_get_character_set_info — returns character set information 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the MariaDB Connector/C section of the manual, page mysql_get_c...er_set_info(3). yes the name is long, yes it's giving "my parents named me after a wifi password", we move. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

mysql_get_character_set_info — returns character set information 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <mysql.h>

void mysql_get_character_set_info(MYSQL * mysql,
                                  MY_CHARSET_INFO * charset);

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

It literally just hands you the tea on the current default character set for the connection you point at. That's it, that's the whole job. No cap. 🎀

✨ PARAMETERS ✨

• mysql — a connection identifier. And not just any random one, bestie: this one was previously allocated by mysql_init(3) and then connected by mysql_real_connect(3). So like, it has to be a real, live, already-connected connection. Don't be out here passing uninitiated structs, that's not the vibe. 💅
• charset — a pointer to a MY_CHARSET_INFO structure. The info gets copied into it. So you bring the container, it brings the character set lore. 🦋

✨ NOTES ✨

• The complete list of supported character sets in the client library lives in the function description for mysql_set_character_set(3). So if you're like "wait what charsets even exist tho", that's where you go. Go look. I'll wait. 👑

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• mariadb_get_infov(3)
• mysql_set_character_set(3)

heads up: this function returns void, so there's no return value to check. Nothing to catch, nothing to handle — it just does the thing and dips. 😭

Version 3.4 of the MariaDB Connector/C manual, bestie — that's the whole page, mysql_get_c...er_set_info(3) and all. go forth and get that character set info, you absolute icon. 🌈✨💖