utf8 and phpmyadmin

[noname8]

I have had this problem long time and it wont go away even when trying many days.
All works fine in wb, äöå and other chars works nice. But!! when opening the phmyadmin or making dump from command line, all the cyrillic chars in the table "mod_form_fields" (that dont make them htmlspecialchars) are seen messy:

Code:

ä

and the dump file is correctly utf8 wo bom

I use phpmyadmin alot and really want it to show the chars correctly also.

DETAILS:
Made all the utf-8 modifications in here:
http://www.xaranetblog.de/2008/08/02/apache-php-und-mysql-auf-utf-8-umstellen/

Mysql table of wb is: utf8_general_ci

Code:

server: Localhost via UNIX socket
server version: 5.1.37-1ubuntu5
protocol version: 10
MySQL-server charset:  UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)

Code:

Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu)
MySQL-customer version: 5.1.37
PHP-extension: mysqli

phpmyadmin: 3.2.2.1deb1

and variables from phpmyadmin:
http://pastebin.com/qWszTqrr

wb Version 2.8.1
Revision 1287 ( i have upgraded this from 2.7 if remember correctly, perhaps something went wrong there?)

Note:
If i edit the form field row in the phpmyadmin and put äöå in there, it displays incorrectly
note2: when added "skip-character-set-client-handshake" into my.conf all the special characters displayed incorrectly

[jacobi22]

whats your charset for the Page? (Look at Settings -> Show Advanced Options -> Charset)

[noname8]

it is unicode utf-8
and my template is also utf-8 and browser detects the charset correctly.

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

not really shure if this has to to with the fact, that WB did not talk with the database about kollation when you store something in WB. This is in all versions of WB including 2.8.2SP2 and will hopefully fixed in a common version.

Matthias