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Well, after creating the bug, Elena responded in a timely manner. The file would not be read my the mysql client utility at all. I had to copy my.ini to somewhere where the utility would look for it and now it works.
With mysql --help, you get a list of directories where the utility looks for any my.ini or my.cnf file.