why client characterset and sever characterset are set to Latin when character set client and server are set to different character set

[Sam Ohn]

I set up utf-8 character set for server, client, connection, etc.
When I run SHOW command to check the character set setting, Character set for client, connection, database, results, server... are utf8. However, when I run STATUS command, Client characterset and Server characterset are set to Latin1.
I thought Client characterset and Server characterset should be set to utf8. Do you know why they were set to Latin1?
I appreciate any comments, suggestions, etc.

I use Window 7 Home 64 W/ Japanese for non-unicode applications
Mysql version 5.1.41

Thank you in advance

Sam

mysql> show variables like '%char%';
+--------------------------+--------------------------------+
| Variable_name            | Value                          |
+--------------------------+--------------------------------+
| character_set_client     | utf8                           |
| character_set_connection | utf8                           |
| character_set_database   | utf8                           |
| character_set_filesystem | binary                         |
| character_set_results    | utf8                           |
| character_set_server     | utf8                           |
| character_set_system     | utf8                           |
| character_sets_dir       | C:\xampp\mysql\share\charsets\ |
+--------------------------+--------------------------------+

But, when I used STATUS command,

mysql> status
--------------
mysql  Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.41, for Win32 (ia32)

Connection id:          27
SSL:                    Not in use
Using delimiter:        ;
Server version:         5.1.41 Source distribution
Protocol version:       10
Connection:             localhost via TCP/IP
Client characterset:    latin1    
Server characterset:    latin1
TCP port:               3306
Uptime:                 2 min 5 sec

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/10/2010 06:47PM by Sam Ohn.