mysql字符集问题

我在solaris下面按照了mysql，然后修改/etc/my.cnf如下：
root@wlan5240-1 # more /etc/my.cnf
[client]
default-character-set=utf8
[mysqld] 
basedir = /usr/local/mysql 
datadir = /usr/local/mysql/data
default-character-set=utf8
重启mysql服务
cd /opt/mysql/mysql/bin
mysqld_safe &
然后进去 mysql -uroot -proot
mysql> show variables like 'collation_%';
+----------------------+-------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+----------------------+-------------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_server | utf8_general_ci |
+----------------------+-------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> show variables like 'character_set_%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /opt/mysql/mysql/share/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)
红色的部分为什么不是utf8_general_ci呢？

[mysqld]  
basedir = /usr/local/mysql  
datadir = /usr/local/mysql/data
default-character-set=utf8
character_set_database=utf8

楼上的，我按照你说的添加后，mysql无法启动，如下：
root@wlan5240-1 # 111206 23:04:49 mysqld_safe Logging to '/usr/local/mysql/data/wlan5240-1.err'.
111206 23:04:49 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /usr/local/mysql/data

root@wlan5240-1 # 111206 23:04:55 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /usr/local/mysql/data/wlan5240-1.pid ended

character_set_server=utf8

my.cnf如下：
root@wlan5240-1 # more /etc/my.cnf
[client]
default-character-set=utf8
[mysqld] 
basedir = /usr/local/mysql 
datadir = /usr/local/mysql/data
default-character-set=utf8
character_set_server=utf8
重启mysql后查看字符集
mysql> show variables like 'collation_%';
+----------------------+-------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+----------------------+-------------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database | latin1_swedish_ci |
| collation_server | utf8_general_ci |
+----------------------+-------------------+
3 rows in set (0.01 sec)

mysql> show variables like 'character_set_%';
+--------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+----------------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8 |
| character_set_connection | utf8 |
| character_set_database | latin1 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8 |
| character_set_server | utf8 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| character_sets_dir | /opt/mysql/mysql/share/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------------+
8 rows in set (0.01 sec)
还不是utf8的