Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
MySQL Cartridge 5.1

How reproducible:
https://www.openshift.com/forums/openshift/mysql-cartridge-bug-cannot-change-character-set-to-utf8

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Insert a value in database which must be encoded as UTF-8
2. Read the value inserted from database
3. The Value is not readable and produced as ? chars: ???????

Actual results:
Unreadable strings

Expected results:
Readable strings

Additional info:
Cannot persist changes to my.cnf as it's overwritten after each git push and deploy. Must set the defaut character set / collation as an OpenShift variable that we could set from line command : rhc set variable .....