The current character set is: latin1
Get the charset data:
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/
Get the collation data:
collation_connection -_-_-  latin1_swedish_ci
collation_database -_-_-  latin1_swedish_ci
collation_server -_-_-  latin1_swedish_ci