Problema al buscar palabras con tilde, lo he intentado todo

[keko123]

cuando hago esta consulta :
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%character%'


me arroja estos resultado en mi pc:
Variable_name Value
character_set_client utf8
character_set_connection utf8
character_set_database utf8
character_set_filesystem binary
character_set_results utf8
character_set_server latin1
character_set_system utf8
character_sets_dir /usr/share/mysql/charsets/

y en el hosting me da este resultado:
character_set_client utf8
character_set_connection utf8
character_set_database latin1
character_set_filesystem binary
character_set_results utf8
character_set_server latin1
character_set_system utf8
character_sets_dir /usr/share/mysql/charsets/

puede estar el problema en el character_set_server ?