confirming this problem with PhpMyAdmin :
phpmyadmin is utf-8, my database was converted from utf-8 at import, but when i use phpmyadmin to insert values in any tables, they are "automagically" converted to latin1.
all default COLLATE values are latin1-swedish in mysql, but i didn't set this anywhere (i'm using utf-8 everywhere possible, and speak french, so in worst case it would have been latin-1-french, or something like that).
confirming this problem with PhpMyAdmin :
phpmyadmin is utf-8, my database was converted from utf-8 at import, but when i use phpmyadmin to insert values in any tables, they are "automagically" converted to latin1.
all default COLLATE values are latin1-swedish in mysql, but i didn't set this anywhere (i'm using utf-8 everywhere possible, and speak french, so in worst case it would have been latin-1-french, or something like that).
using recent dapper, mysql-server 5.0.21-3 .