=== Slim/Schema.pm
==================================================================
--- Slim/Schema.pm	(revision 46243)
+++ Slim/Schema.pm	(local)
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 		AutoCommit => 1,
 		PrintError => 0,
 		Taint      => 1,
-
+		on_connect_do => [ 'SET NAMES UTF8' ],
 	}) or do {
 
 		logBacktrace("Couldn't connect to database! Fatal error: [$!] Exiting!");
@@ -135,14 +135,6 @@
 		exit;
 	};
 
-	# Tell the DB that we're handing it UTF-8
-	# MySQL < 4.1 doesn't support this - which really shouldn't matter to
-	# us. But some users *ahem*kdf*ahem* are stuck running 4.0.x
-	if ( main::SLIM_SERVICE || Slim::Utils::MySQLHelper->mysqlVersion($dbh) > 4.0 ) {
-
-		eval { $dbh->do('SET NAMES UTF8;') };
-	}
-
 	# Bug: 4076
 	# If a user was using MySQL with 6.3.x (unsupported), their
 	# metainformation table won't be dropped with the schema_1_up.sql