Accent problem with outfile command

[Eric]

Hello,

I'm using mysql 4.1.
When I insert data with special french character with accent é, à...
and that I use select command to see the line, I can see the
characters correctly.
But when I use the outfile command the characters are not in the
correct format.

I tried several charset and collation, but it seems that it's not the
problem.

Thanks.