diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 165dd4ff1..1f3769504 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ $Id$
   thanks to Kaarel Nummert - kaarelnu
 - patch #2978815 [pdf] Fix generating PDF with table dimensions, thanks to BlinK_
 - patch #2977725 [export] XML wrongly encoded, thanks to Victor Volkov - hanut
+- patch #2979234 [import] Create tables with current charset and collation.
+- patch #2979234, bug #2960105 [import] Properly import unicode text from ODS.
 
 3.3.1.0 (2010-03-16)
 - bug #2941037 [core] Database structure not sorted by table correctly 
diff --git a/libraries/import.lib.php b/libraries/import.lib.php
index 9d2ccd2cc..8ef32494d 100644
--- a/libraries/import.lib.php
+++ b/libraries/import.lib.php
@@ -938,7 +938,7 @@ function PMA_buildSQL($db_name, &$tables, &$analyses = NULL, &$additional_sql =
                     $tempSQLStr .= ", ";
                 }
             }
-            $tempSQLStr .= ") ENGINE=MyISAM;";
+            $tempSQLStr .= ") ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET " . $charset . " COLLATE " . $collation . ";";
             
             /**
              * Each SQL statement is executed immediately
diff --git a/libraries/import/ods.php b/libraries/import/ods.php
index 89701ec19..81aed5e20 100644
--- a/libraries/import/ods.php
+++ b/libraries/import/ods.php
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ unset($data);
  * result in increased performance without the need to
  * alter the code in any way. It's basically a freebee.
  */
-$xml = simplexml_load_string(utf8_encode($buffer), "SimpleXMLElement", LIBXML_COMPACT);
+$xml = simplexml_load_string($buffer, "SimpleXMLElement", LIBXML_COMPACT);
 
 unset($buffer);