mysql> show variables like'character%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
|Variable_name |Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
|character_set_client |latin1 |
| character_set_connection |latin1 |
| character_set_database |latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem |binary |
|character_set_results |latin1 |
|character_set_server |latin1 |
|character_set_system |utf8 |
|character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)