There are three main branches:

Go to the language you want.
Inside a language node, there are two branches:
If you want to change the mapping from db to Talend type, go to the second node.
This node contains nodes matching the db types, indicates for each of them the available Java type and a default one:
Just change the default on wich type you want (in the capture default talend type for MySql CHAR type has been changed from Char to String).