In your ini/cnf play around with the "default-character-set" variables.
[mysql]
# default-character-set=latin1
default-character-set=utf
C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin>mysql -u root
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Hi, I'm currently using the official MySQL binaries and I have to
issue 'SET NAMES utf8' queries on every connection to override the
default values for character_set_connection and collation_connection.
I was wondering how to avoid the overhead that issuing these queries
introduces. After some sea
