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The CHARSET() function identifies the character set used for a specified string

   
mysql>
mysql> SELECT CHARSET('cats and dogs');
+--------------------------+
| CHARSET('cats and dogs') |
+--------------------------+
| latin1                   |
+--------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)








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