Question
What is the default character set for MySQL on cPanel & WHM servers?
Answer
cPanel & WHM systems use the latin1 character set. If you'd like to check your own server for this value you can run the following command from the mysql prompt on the system:
mysql> select @@character_set_database;
+--------------------------+
| @@character_set_database |
+--------------------------+
| latin1 |
+--------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)