charset errors

[Phenomena]

Hello dear community.

I have the next problem:

My database cant store and correctly show characters in cp1251 (russian) for example stored in chatlog table.

As i understand, i need to do next things:

1) Make table in UTF8 with collate UTF8_bin

2) In conf/inter_athena.conf change next lines:

// You can specify the codepage to use in your mySQL tables here.
// (Note that this feature requires MySQL 4.1+)
default_codepage: cp1251

 

But this not help. Can anyone suggest anything?

Thank you for your help.