在MAC下配置mysql数据库的编码问题

最近安装了[color=darkred]mac osx lion[/color]系统，然后安装了[color=darkred]mysql5.5.16[/color]版本的数据库进行开发，但是大家都知道，mysql的默认编码是[color=darkred]latin1[/color]，如果存储中文的话就会出现乱码，然后就狂google这个问题，但是一直都没有解决，网上大部分的回答都是如下：
1.拷贝[color=blue]/usr/local/mysql/support-files[/color]下的任意一个[color=blue]*.cnf[/color]文件到[color=blue]/etc/my.cnf[/color]；
2.在[color=blue]my.cnf[/color]文件的[color=blue]［mysqld］[/color]和[color=blue]［client］[/color]后面添加一句[color=blue]default-character-set=utf8[/color]（或者是default_character_set=utf8）；
3.保存退出；
4.重新启动mysql服务器就可以。
可是我试过好多次，这样修改之后，[color=red]mysql服务根本就启动不了[/color]。
偶然的机会，我发现了一个关于在linux下配置mysql的编码问题的方法，抱着试试看的态度，我进行了修改，发现真的可以用，因此发这篇博文希望装mac的朋友不用再走弯路了。配置方法如下：
1.拷贝[color=blue]/usr/local/mysql/support-files[/color]下的任意一个[color=blue]*.cnf[/color]文件到[color=blue]/etc/my.cnf[/color]；
2.在[color=blue]my.cnf文[/color]件的[color=blue]［client］[/color]后面添加一句[color=green]default-character-set=utf8[/color]（ [b]不是default_character_set=utf8[/b][i][/i]，这个配置我没有试过，不知道能不能成功），关键在这里的配置，在［mysqld］后面添加如下三句：
[color=green]default-storage-engine=INNODB
character-set-server=utf8
collation-server=utf8_general_ci[/color]；
3.保存退出；
4.重新启动mysql服务器就可以。
然后再就入mysql数据库查看编码发现改成了utf8了。
下面是我重启mysql服务器进入mysql数据库查出来的结果：

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 520
Server version: 5.5.16 MySQL Community Server (GPL)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> show variables like '%char%';
+--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
| 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/local/mysql-5.5.16-osx10.6-x86_64/share/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

至此，这个困扰多日的问题终于解决了。
附修改好的 my.cnf文件内容，不知道为什么附件我上传不了，就把代码贴出来吧：

# Example MySQL config file for small systems.
#
# This is for a system with little memory (<= 64M) where MySQL is only used
# from time to time and it's important that the mysqld daemon
# doesn't use much resources.
#
# MySQL programs look for option files in a set of
# locations which depend on the deployment platform.
# You can copy this option file to one of those
# locations. For information about these locations, see:
# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/option-files.html
#
# In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.
# If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program
# with the "--help" option.

# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
[client]
default-character-set=utf8
#password	= your_password
port		= 3306
socket		= /tmp/mysql.sock

# Here follows entries for some specific programs

# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
default-storage-engine=INNODB
character-set-server=utf8
collation-server=utf8_general_ci
port		= 3306
socket		= /tmp/mysql.sock
skip-external-locking
key_buffer_size = 16K
max_allowed_packet = 1M
table_open_cache = 4
sort_buffer_size = 64K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 256K
net_buffer_length = 2K
thread_stack = 128K

# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,
# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.
# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.
# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows
# (using the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!
# 
#skip-networking
server-id	= 1

# Uncomment the following if you want to log updates
#log-bin=mysql-bin

# binary logging format - mixed recommended
#binlog_format=mixed

# Causes updates to non-transactional engines using statement format to be
# written directly to binary log. Before using this option make sure that
# there are no dependencies between transactional and non-transactional
# tables such as in the statement INSERT INTO t_myisam SELECT * FROM
# t_innodb; otherwise, slaves may diverge from the master.
#binlog_direct_non_transactional_updates=TRUE

# Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables
#innodb_data_home_dir = /usr/local/mysql/data
#innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
#innodb_log_group_home_dir = /usr/local/mysql/data
# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %
# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high
#innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M
#innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 2M
# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size
#innodb_log_file_size = 5M
#innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
#innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
#innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates

[myisamchk]
key_buffer_size = 8M
sort_buffer_size = 8M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout