SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'c%' gives me the following output:
Variable_name  Value  
character_set_client utf8 
character_set_connection utf8 
character_set_database utf8 
character_set_filesystem binary 
character_set_results utf8 
character_set_server latin1 
character_set_system utf8 
character_sets_dir /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ 
collation_connection utf8_unicode_ci 
collation_database utf8_swedish_ci 
collation_server latin1_swedish_ci 
completion_type 0 
concurrent_insert 1 
connect_timeout 5