Creating a stored procedure: setting the character set and collation

Question

When creating a MySQL stored procedure how does one set the character set and collation? The MySQL documentation does not provide any examples and to the general syntax is sligh

Answer 1

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character_set_client is the session value of the character_set_client system variable when the routine was created. collation_connection is the session value of the collation_connection system variable when the routine was created. Database Collation is the collation of the database with which the routine is associated. These columns were added in MySQL 5.1.21.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/show-procedure-status.html

In short, open a mysql command line, type in

SET NAMES UTF8;

then drop and reimport the stored procedures. This fixed my problem. I don't even want to think about pre 5.1.21 users. They are fumbling in the dark!