It's actually a MySQL bug with utf8 and the skip-character-set-client-handshake in 5.5. It just got confirmed by MySQL: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=67241
It's actually a MySQL bug with utf8 and the skip-character- set-client- handshake in 5.5. It just got confirmed by MySQL: http:// bugs.mysql. com/bug. php?id= 67241