character encoding in DODS

Hi,

we've just started using DODS of Enhydra 5.1 and now we face the
following problem: strings in win-1250 encoding are stored via DODS to
MySQL database correctly but when they're read back all Czech specific
characters (ASCII > 127) are replaced with '?'.

Can somebody help, please? Google found just a bug report from November
2001 where Gilles describes a similar problem and suggests some
solutions but I don't know if they were ever accepted to DODS 5.x.

Browsing DODS FAQ didn't help.

Thanks in advance for a quick help - we should go online with this
before Christmas :-)

Petr