Privet!
MySQL 4.1 and 5.0 should work fine with koi8-r and may other character
sets. Please, read :
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/charset.html
in case you haven't done this yet. And if you don't solve you problems,
send to the list output of the following statements:
show var
Hello,
The mysql 4.1.16 shell does not accept alternate character set (koi8r -
russian) keyboard input. It accepts koi8r input fine in non interactive
mode as:
mysql our_database < our_command.sql
and it displays both english and koi8r fine on screen.
It was comiled: configure --with-charse