When do you anticipate to support character sets and collations on the table and columns level? (create table, alter table, …)
Also, now when I manually set a column/table to utf8 (for example), then table data grid do not use this information and shows the data with the default character set. But when I turn a cell in edit mode it shows the content of the sell with the correct encoding.
Actually you could search a little bit here and find a post only a few weeks old telling that! It will be possible to specify charset and collation on a column base. there will simply be added a column to the CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE GUI's from where to specify that.
Ritesh may be able to be more precise, but I think the first 5.1 beta will be out in a few weeks.