Not sure if you had rerun the CPMFetch install - but I did to be sure it was set to correct database and see if it picked up the $CONFIG parm change...
CPMFetch (at least at the 2.0.0 level you are running doesn't seem to honor the $CONFIG['dbcharset']...
CPMFetch (at least at the 2.0.0 level you are running doesn't seem to honor the $CONFIG['dbcharset']...