como podria modificar la configuracion de mysql para que no salgan caracteres raraos

[albertrc]

gracias a ahora ya funciona
he cambiado todas las variables con SET LOCAL character_set_client='utf8';
pero no funciona
se necesita en cada fichero mysql_query ('SET NAMES "utf8" '); para que funcione




show variables like "c%";
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | utf8 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_server | utf8_general_ci |
| completion_type | 0 |
| concurrent_insert | 1 |
| connect_timeout | 10 |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
14 rows in set (0.00 sec)