Problem setting the "default-character-set" parameter in my.ini file.

[sachin vyas]

Hello,
I am trying to change the value for the variable "default-character-set" to latin1 as below in the "my.ini" file:

before change
===============

mysql> show variables like 'character%';
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| 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:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\share\charsets\ |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Now, I made the following change o "my.ini" file:

[mysql]
default-character-set=latin1

Now, after making the above change, when I save the file & reconnect as "root" user & execute the command "show variables like 'character%';" I get the following output:
(I even tried restarting the mysql service after making the changes to the "my.ini" file, but did not get the expected results.)

mysql> show variables like 'character%';
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| 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:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\share\charsets\ |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Query
=====
Shouldn't the values for :
1) character_set_client
2) character_set_connection
3) character_set_server
be = latin1.

When I try doing the same change from command line using the command, it works as expected :

mysql -u root -pmanager --default-character-set=latin1

Now, I exceute the following at mysql prompt:

mysql> show variables like 'character%';
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
| character_set_client | latin1 |
| character_set_connection | latin1 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | latin1 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\share\charsets\ |
+--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

As per MySQL documentation http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/server-options.html#option_mysqld_default-character-set
I changed the variable name to character-set-server, but that did n't help either.

But, If the above link is true then how did it work for the command:
mysql -u root -pmanager --default-character-set=latin1
since --default-character-set is deprecated from MySQl 5.5.3 ?