Table 13-7 lists the global variables that contain information about languages and character sets. For more information on languages and character sets, see the System Administration Guide.
Global variable |
Description |
|---|---|
@@char_convert |
Contains 0 if character set conversion is not in effect. Contains 1 if character set conversion is in effect. |
@@client_csid |
Contains client’s character set ID. Set to -1 if the client character set has never been initialized; otherwise, it contains the most recently used client character set’s id from syscharsets. |
@@client_csname |
Contains client’s character set name. Set to NULL if the client character set has never been initialized; otherwise, it contains the name of the most recently used character set. |
@@langid |
Defines the local language ID of the language currently in use, as specified in syslanguages.langid. |
@@language |
Defines the name of the language currently in use, as specified in syslanguages.name. |
@@maxcharlen |
Contains the maximum length, in bytes, of multibyte characters in the default character set. |
@@ncharsize |
Contains the average length, in bytes, of a national character. |
@@char_convert |
Contains 0 if character set conversion is not in effect. Contains 1 if character set conversion is in effect. |
