mysql> show variables like "%char%";
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +--------------------------+-------------------------------------+ | character_set_client | utf8 | | character_set_connection | utf8 | | character_set_database | latin1 | | character_set_filesystem | binary | | character_set_results | utf8 | | character_set_server | utf8 | | character_set_system | utf8 | | character_sets_dir | D:/MySQL Server 5.0/share/charsets/ | +--------------------------+-------------------------------------+ 8 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> show variables like "%coll%"; +----------------------+-------------------+ | Variable_name | Value | +----------------------+-------------------+ | collation_connection | utf8_general_ci | | collation_database | latin1_swedish_ci | | collation_server | utf8_general_ci | +----------------------+-------------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec) |