Column comments with accents are converted to normal characters when generating SQL script (4238898)

With a MySQL 5.1 database, column comments with accents (Unicode characters) are not being created in the database when generating a database creation script. Instead, they are converted to normal characters without accents. Without any parameter set in the script, the column comments with accented characters are removed by mysql server.

The database default characterset is Latin1.

By entering 'SET NAMES ascii' manually at top of the script, to indicate to the server that the script was ascii coded, it still converts the accented characters to normal characters, and removes the accents.