The deprecated character-set setting mentioned above did it for me: I had to change default-character-set=utf8 to character-set-server=utf8
Also see http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tag/mysql-5-5/
The deprecated character-set setting mentioned above did it for me: I had to change default- character- set=utf8 to character- set-server= utf8
Also see http:// ronaldbradford. com/blog/ tag/mysql- 5-5/