Command to login with command prompt in MySQL

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\bin>mysql -u root -p
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mysql>

Show the character set variables:


mysql> show variables like 'character_set%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------------
-----+
| Variable_name            | Value
     |
+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------------
-----+
| character_set_client     | cp850
     |
| character_set_connection | cp850
     |
| character_set_database   | utf8
     |
| character_set_filesystem | binary
     |
| character_set_results    | cp850
     |
| character_set_server     | utf8
     |
| character_set_system     | utf8
     |
| character_sets_dir       | C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\share\chars
ets\ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------------
-----+
8 rows in set (0.18 sec)

mysql>


Ref:
 http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/show-character-set.html