charset/mysqldump bug?

[kennylucius]

I want to document a problem on Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.27, for apple-darwin8.5.1 (i686). The following dump command:

$ mysqldump --hex-blob ... -rdump.sql database

produces a file with an unknown character set. Using BBEdit, I have opened the file with UTF-8 and several Latin charsets, and none of them are right. Using this command:

$ mysqldump --default-character-set=latin1 --skip-set-charset --hex-blob ... -rdump.sql database

I am able to produce a valid UTF8 file that can be imported elsewhere with this command:

$ mysql --default-character-set=utf8 ... database < dump.sql

Why is mysqldump producing UTF8 only when set to Latin1? Setting it to UTF-8, which is the default, produced something I was unable to identify.

I am using the default Max installation.