note 72754 deleted from mysqli.connect by danielc

Note Submitter: Niel Archer Reason: 1 ---- A quick word about the connection encoding for this extension. It doesn't appear to be documented anywhere that I can find, but this defaults to latin1 encoding for the connection, regardless of PHP's or MySQL's settings. I run in a completely UTF-8 setup, and spent days trying to discover the cause of corrupted characters from the Db. If, like me, you need to work with other than latin1, use the set_charset function/method to switch to your encoding of choice.