diff -u -r adodb-new-tmp/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php
--- adodb-new-tmp/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php	2006-06-07 23:20:13.000000000 -0700
+++ adodb/drivers/adodb-mysql.inc.php	2006-07-25 12:30:11.000000000 -0700
@@ -581,6 +581,32 @@
      }
 	 
 	
+	// Functions for managing the client encoding
+	// Added 2004-06-20 by Kevin Jamieson (http://pkp.sfu.ca/)
+	function GetCharSet()
+	{
+		if (function_exists('mysql_client_encoding')) {
+			$this->charSet = @mysql_client_encoding($this->_connectionID);
+		}
+		
+		if (!$this->charSet) {
+			return false;
+		} else {
+			return $this->charSet;
+		}
+	}
+	
+	// SetCharSet - switch the client encoding
+	function SetCharSet($charset_name)
+	{
+		if ($this->Execute('SET NAMES ?', array($charset_name))) {
+			$this->charSet = $charset_name;
+			return true;
+		} else {
+			return false;
+		}
+	}
+	
 }
 	
 /*--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------