--default-character-set

[pascal barbedor]

Hi

there is no UTF-8 possibility for 
--default-character-set mysqld starting option.

How can I tell mysql to send to clients utf-8 if everything on the database is latin-1 ?


if 
--default-character-set=UTF-8  would exists in shared/charsets, 
does it mean I have to recode all the content of my database or 
does it mean mysql would convert it dynamically when sending something to a client ?

has anyone got the same problem ?

looked in the docs, but not a word on utf-8.

thanks

pascal barbedor