mysql encoding problems

[makkintosh]

hi all
i have problem with encoding.
today are expreriencing problems with encoding.
on all our websites there are question marks instead of cp1251 text.
only SET CHARACTER SET cp1251 helps. but it is not the right way to solve this problem!

what should i do?
i dont want to edit all configuration files on all websites on my server.
thanx

 

[makkintosh]

by the way it happend ofter yesterday wonderfull update on both of our servers!

 

[tweakservers]

from which version of mysql you upgraded to?

 

[makkintosh]

A week before we had updated mysql from 4.0 to 4.1.19

but after that we got working subqueries.

everything was fine

but yesterday after cPanel has been updated troubles with mysql encoding started.

first server:
WHM 10.6.0 cPanel 10.6.0-R55
FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE i386 - WHM X v3.1.0

second:
WHM 10.8.0 cPanel 10.8.1-R113
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386 - WHM X v3.1.0

we added this line to /etc/my.cnf
default-character-set=cp1251

but nothing happened :-(
only query in the begging of php apps helps to solve the problem
SET CHARACTER SET cp1251 ...

 

[johny_gjx]

I always feel bad about mysql 4.1! I'll watch this topic.

 

[caesar1_caesar1]

Have you restored your DB after upgrading ?

 

[makkintosh]

what u mean restored? we didnt touch DB files. they are okay. and it works okay if first write query with charset. but before cPanel update it wasnot necessary.....