Encoding problems

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Hi everyone!
I have problems with encoding of Cyrillic characters.
Because my host Defaults (I can not change it):
character_set_client cp1251
character_set_connection cp1251
character_set_database cp1251
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Please help me. How to set utf8 by default using concrete5?
If in concrete/src/Database/Driver/PDOMySqlConcrete5/Driver.php i write " $conn -> exec("set names utf8");" all work fine. But this is a terrible way!