that gave me: Array ( [character_set_client] => utf8mb4 [character_set_connection] => utf8mb4 [character_set_database] => latin1 [character_set_filesystem] => binary [character_set_results] => utf8mb4 [character_set_server] => utf8 [character_set_system] => utf8 [character_sets_dir] => /usr/share/mysql-community-server/charsets/ )