Default collation with MySQL

Greetings,

I have set my MySQL to use utf8-unicode-ci, but Drupal keeps creating tables and fields using utf-general-ci.

Is there somewhere to set Drupal to use utf8-unicode-ci?

I have had a look in the forums and bug databases, and this is comes up a lot with modules. Basically the response is that it is a database issue, and not a module issue, so it gets closed.

I have tried both the following into my database.mysql.inc file, but it does not help:

// Force UTF-8.
// mysql_query('SET NAMES "utf8"', $connection);
mysql_query('SET NAMES "UTF8"', $connection);
mysql_query("SET collation_connection='utf8_unicode_ci'", $connection);
mysql_query("SET collation_server='utf8_unicode_ci'", $connection);
mysql_query("SET character_set_client='utf8'", $connection);
mysql_query("SET character_set_connection='utf8'", $connection);
mysql_query("SET character_set_results='utf8'", $connection);
mysql_query("SET character_set_server='utf8'", $connection);

And

// Force UTF-8.
// mysql_query('SET NAMES "utf8"', $connection);
mysql_query('SET NAMES "UTF8" COLLATE "utf8_unicode_ci"', $connection);

Any ideas on this? It is driving me nuts.

Don