Googling around just finds instructions for changing from one format to another, but I can't seem to find how exactly to make sure which of these I have first.
How can I:
You can use information_schema in order to know the engine of each table.
select table_name,engine
from information_schema.tables
where table_schema = 'your_database'
For the encoding you can use
show create table table_name
or, even better
select
c.character_set_name
from information_schema.tables as t,
information_schema.collation_character_set_applicability as c
where c.collation_name = t.table_collation
and t.table_schema = "your_db"
and t.table_name = "table_name";