[MySQL 5.5.9] unknown variable default-character-set

[Ucreation]

On a new webserver, based on CentOS 5 and DirectAdmin were facing with a MySQL problem.

The following error occurs:
110325 22:27:16 [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown variable 'default-character-set=utf8'

I added the following option to the my.cnf file on this server;
default-character-set=utf8

When I remove this setting out of my my.cnf file the server will work perfect.

On previously versions of MySQL (5.1.56) these setting always worked for us, but since we use MySQL 5.5 we have problems.

What could be the problem here? is the default-character-set setting deprecated since 5.5?

Thanks!

 

[nmb]

Use charset_name as the default character set. This option is deprecated in favor of --character-set-server. See Section 9.5, “Character Set Configuration”. --default-character-set was removed in MySQL 5.5.3.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/server-options.html#option_mysqld_default-character-set