mysql 4.1.16 shell atl charset input problem

[Kirill Sapelkin]

Hello,

The mysql 4.1.16 shell does not accept alternate character set (koi8r - 
russian) keyboard input.  It accepts koi8r input fine in non interactive 
mode as:
mysql our_database < our_command.sql

and it displays both english and koi8r fine on screen.

It was comiled: configure --with-charset=koi8r

mysq 5.0.16 acts the same.  4.0 and earlier always worked fine.

Is there a way to disable the utf-i in 4.1.16?

Thanks for any help or direction.

Kirill