third time asking help concerning charsets

I'm sorry, this is the third time I ask help from this list. No suggestions :-(, not even one. If it is a dummy question please point me to some url ... whatever. Good day all! Please help me with charset adding. I have some strange trouble. I use FreeBSD 4.2 STABLE and MySQL 3.23.28-gamma (comp

please help me with charset

Good day all! Please help me with charset adding. I have some strange trouble. I use FreeBSD 4.2 STABLE and MySQL 3.23.28-gamma (compiled from FreeBSD ports) and PHP 4.04. As I understood Latin1 is a default charset. So, I wanted to add cp1251 or koi8_ru. Ok, I add --default-character-set=cp1251