maybe you find this link helpful
http://blog.mwojcik.pl/2006/10/08/polskie-znaki-w-mysql/
I have a little different problem, though a related one:
I work on a php/mysql script using utf8 and it seems to work nice -
the Polish and/or e.g. German national characters are recorded and
displayed correctly, both in bowsers and in the db -
BUT
when I run he script, my MySql (5.0.18 with client 3.23.49) generates
an arror message:
File 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\?.conf' not found (Errcode: 2) Character set '#33' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the 'c:\mysql\share\charsets\Index' file
There is nothing like a 'utf.xml' in that folder and I have no clue
what to do about it... MySql charset is UTF-8 Unicode (utf8) and the
other settings are utf8_general_ci
Pretty strange, isn't it?