Selecting a character set for MySQL and MariaDB clients

MySQL and MariaDB have many character-set related options, perhaps too many: character_set_client character_set_connection character_set_database character_set_filesystem character_set_results character_set_server character_set_system This is a topic that I don't know much about and I am still far from an expert. My focus has been other DBMS topics. But I spent time recently on this topic while…