Правильная кодировка MSQL

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Спасибо всем за отзывчивость. Постараюсь ответить по порядку.
Мой конфиг. Должен заметить, что: Во первых пункт [mysqld] по умолчанию был пуст, во вторых я сейчас всё в [mysqld] и касаемо utf8 закоменнтировал для работоспособности msql. Пробовал я все варианты в разных вариациях (извините за каламбур)- любая строчка в пункте [mysqld] приводит к failed.
#
# The MySQL database server configuration file.
#
# You can copy this to one of:
# - "/etc/mysql/my.cnf" to set global options,
# - "~/.my.cnf" to set user-specific options.
# 
# One can use all long options that the program supports.
# Run program with --help to get a list of available options and with
# --print-defaults to see which it would actually understand and use.
#
# For explanations see
# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/server-system-variables.html

# This will be passed to all mysql clients
# It has been reported that passwords should be enclosed with ticks/quotes
# escpecially if they contain "#" chars...
# Remember to edit /etc/mysql/debian.cnf when changing the socket location.
[client]
port		= 3306
socket		= /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
#default-charaster-set=utf8
#charaster-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets/


# Here is entries for some specific programs
# The following values assume you have at least 32M ram

# This was formally known as [safe_mysqld]. Both versions are currently parsed.
[mysqld_safe]
socket		= /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
nice		= 0

[mysqld]
#init_connect = set collation_connection = utf8_general_ci
#init_connect = set names utf8
#default-charaster-set = utf8
#init-connect = "set names utf8"
#skip-charaster-set-client-handshake
#collation-server = utf8_general_ci
#
# * Basic Settings
#
user		= mysql
pid-file	= /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket		= /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port		= 3306
basedir		= /usr
datadir		= /var/lib/mysql
tmpdir		= /tmp
#language	= /usr/share/mysql/english
language        = /usr/share/mysql/russian
skip-external-locking
#
# Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
# localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
bind-address		= 127.0.0.1
#
# * Fine Tuning
#
key_buffer		= 16M
max_allowed_packet	= 16M
thread_stack		= 128K
thread_cache_size	= 8
# This replaces the startup script and checks MyISAM tables if needed
# the first time they are touched
myisam-recover		= BACKUP
#max_connections        = 100
#table_cache            = 64
#thread_concurrency     = 10
#
# * Query Cache Configuration
#
query_cache_limit       = 1M
query_cache_size        = 16M
#
# * Logging and Replication
#
# Both location gets rotated by the cronjob.
# Be aware that this log type is a performance killer.
#log		= /var/log/mysql/mysql.log
#
# Error logging goes to syslog. This is a Debian improvement :)
#
# Here you can see queries with especially long duration
#log_slow_queries	= /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log
#long_query_time = 2
#log-queries-not-using-indexes
#
# The following can be used as easy to replay backup logs or for replication.
# note: if you are setting up a replication slave, see README.Debian about
#       other settings you may need to change.
#server-id		= 1
#log_bin			= /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log
expire_logs_days	= 10
max_binlog_size         = 100M
#binlog_do_db		= include_database_name
#binlog_ignore_db	= include_database_name
#
# * BerkeleyDB
#
# Using BerkeleyDB is now discouraged as its support will cease in 5.1.12.
skip-bdb
#
# * InnoDB
#
# InnoDB is enabled by default with a 10MB datafile in /var/lib/mysql/.
# Read the manual for more InnoDB related options. There are many!
# You might want to disable InnoDB to shrink the mysqld process by circa 100MB.
#skip-innodb
#
# * Security Features
#
# Read the manual, too, if you want chroot!
# chroot = /var/lib/mysql/
#
# For generating SSL certificates I recommend the OpenSSL GUI "tinyca".
#
# ssl-ca=/etc/mysql/cacert.pem
# ssl-cert=/etc/mysql/server-cert.pem
# ssl-key=/etc/mysql/server-key.pem



[mysqldump]
quick
quote-names
max_allowed_packet	= 16M
#default-charaster-set=utf8

[mysql]
#no-auto-rehash	# faster start of mysql but no tab completition
#default-charaster-set=utf8

[isamchk]
key_buffer		= 16M

#
# * NDB Cluster
#
# See /usr/share/doc/mysql-server-*/README.Debian for more information.
#
# The following configuration is read by the NDB Data Nodes (ndbd processes)
# not from the NDB Management Nodes (ndb_mgmd processes).
#
# [MYSQL_CLUSTER]
# ndb-connectstring=127.0.0.1


#
# * IMPORTANT: Additional settings that can override those from this file!
#   The files must end with '.cnf', otherwise they'll be ignored.
#
!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/
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Мой лог, взятый из sys.log (остальные логи пусты) после команды /etc/init.d/mysql restart
 
Jun 21 20:59:38 debian mysqld_safe[5378]: started
Jun 21 20:59:38 debian mysqld[5382]: 090621 20:59:38 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown variable 'default-charaster-set=utf8'
Jun 21 20:59:38 debian mysqld[5382]: 
Jun 21 20:59:38 debian mysqld_safe[5384]: ended
Jun 21 20:59:53 debian /etc/init.d/mysql[5534]: 0 processes alive and '/usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf ping' resulted in
Jun 21 20:59:53 debian /etc/init.d/mysql[5534]: #007/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
Jun 21 20:59:53 debian /etc/init.d/mysql[5534]: error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
Jun 21 20:59:53 debian /etc/init.d/mysql[5534]: Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!
Jun 21 20:59:53 debian /etc/init.d/mysql[5534]: 
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>set names utf8 - я так понимаю необходимо делать при каждом подключении к каждой базе, что меня не очень устраивает.
>libmysqlclient - сейчас займусь этим более детально.
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Кстати вот что выдаёт запрос 
mysql> \s
--------------
mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.51a, for debian-linux-gnu (i486) using readline 5.2

Connection id:		37
Current database:	
Current user:		slavik@localhost
SSL:			Not in use
Current pager:		stdout
Using outfile:		''
Using delimiter:	;
Server version:		5.0.51a-24 (Debian)
Protocol version:	10
Connection:		Localhost via UNIX socket
Server characterset:	latin1
Db     characterset:	latin1
Client characterset:	latin1
Conn.  characterset:	latin1
UNIX socket:		/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime:			13 sec
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А это PHPMYADMIN системные переменные MYSQL

Threads: 1  Questions: 107  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 32  Flush tables: 1  Open tables: 26  Queries per second avg: 8.231
character set client  	utf8
(Глобальное значение) 	latin1
character set connection 	utf8
(Глобальное значение) 	latin1
character set database 	latin1
character set filesystem 	binary
character set results 	utf8
(Глобальное значение) 	latin1
character set server 	latin1
character set system 	utf8
character sets dir 	/usr/share/mysql/charsets/
collation connection 	utf8_unicode_ci
(Глобальное значение) 	latin1_swedish_ci
collation database 	latin1_swedish_ci
collation server 	latin1_swedish_ci
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Если кто-то интересуется почему меня не устраивают действующая кодировка, то скажу: к примеру ошибки выдаются знаками вопроса в ромбиках и я молчу о "чужих" базах в кирилической кодировке.

срочно RTFM: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/charset-connection.html