utf-8-question

Earlier, I had some utf8-problems with MySQL 4.1.10 and DBD-mysql 2.9* 
(http://lists.mysql.com/perl/3566). For some reason, utf8-problems 
returned after I had initially resolved them with a DBD-mysql-patch: 
special characters like German Umlaut just weren't handled properly.

I updated DBD-mysql 3.008. I finally managed to solve the problems by 
calling "set names 'utf8'" within my perl scripts each time a database 
connection is made. However, I don't understand why I have to do this.

/etc/my.cnf lists "default-character-set=utf-8" in all sections.
phpMyAdmin reports all character set variables as utf8.
When I connect to mysql from the command-line and then retrieve the 
character set variables, character_set_client, character_set_connection 
and character_set_results are set to "latin1". Why?

While my problems seem to be solved, I would really like to understand 
what caused them in the first place,

thanks, and best regards,

Birgit Kellner

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