MariaDB Convert them to utf8 before adding a database

Hi

Running this:

Code:

mysqladmin -u root -p var | grep -E 'character|collation' | tr -s ' '

i got:

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Code:

| character_set_client | latin1 |
| character_set_connection | latin1 |
| character_set_database | latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | latin1 |
| character_set_server | latin1 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
| collation_connection | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_database | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_server | latin1_swedish_ci |

How can i change them to utf8 before i add any database?

Thanks