This is how I do it: when you setup your db cluster, chose the locale 'C'
this will let you select LATIN1 as a database encoding. (or as fas as I
understand, any other encoding)
If you let it at the default value, the cluster lc is defaulted to the
serveur local charset, in your case UTF8 - English_Canada.1252 (as would any
modern windows/linux server be nowadays)
Hope this helps
Didier