http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1049728/how-do-i-see-what-character-set-a-mysql-database-table-column-is mysql> use db_nameDatabase changedmysql> SELECT @@character_set_database;+--------------------------+| @@character_set_database |+--------------------------+| latin1                   |+--------------------------+1 row in set (0.00 sec) or: mysql> show variables...