About character-set-server of easyphp 5.3.3

I installed easyphp 5.3.3 on xp.It work well about php script.When i log on mysql in commandline and run 'status',it show server and db characterset is latin1.I expect it will be uft8 and i checked my.ini in subdir of easyphp,in it default-character-set was set uft8.I need deal chinese character with mysql and i test in this way but it can't show correct chinese character after i insert these data into a table and show it in commandline with 'select * from'.
How can i change the set of character-set-server?

I think you can open my.ini and add it to end of [mysqld] section :

character-set-server=utf8
skip-character-set-client-handshake

Is it better ?

Thank you very much.
All char_set was utf8 now When i check it on commandline after add set in mysqld section of my.ini.