[en] Zend Framework 1.0.2 and still no mysqli utf-8 love

I know the feature's still in progress but another new ZF version came out without any possibility to switch the mysqli adapter to utf-8 charset - any adapter to any charset actually! That makes me resort to little tweaking in the code to enable that functionality (and I really don't feel like subclassing the adapter). It would be really great if I didn't have to.