Question

When I make a query from the mysql console and it has accents or any character that needs to be utf-8 encoded, it gets mugged

INSERT INTO users (userName) VALUES ("José Alarcón");
SELECT userName FROM users;
José Alarcón

SET NAMES utF8 changes nothing --default-character-set=utf8 as parameter changes nothing
Keep in mind than this is ONLY from the console. If I use phpmyadmin or make any query from a program, there is no problem at all, but an inserted row from the console gets muggled.
I’m using putty on windows as client

~$ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Clarification:
Mi local computer is windows XP, i’m using putty 0.60 as terminal client. The target system where MySQL is running is a Debian linux
I can’t find any configuration in putty for character encoding…

Update: Stupid PuTTY, having the encoding configuration inside a menu called “translation” WTF?

Answer 1

Set PuTTY to interpret received data as UTF8 in Window -> Translation “Character set on received data”.