Hi,
can you reproduce this? I create a table named école and after the CREATE TABLE, the name is corrupted (the name is internally encoded in UTF-8 by MySQL 4.1.x but it's not properly decoded when displayed in PMA).
Then I can no longer work with the table (insert, search, etc). Same problem happens when connecting to a MySQL 4.0.x or 5.0.x server.
This must be caused by a recent change in HEAD.
Marc