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MySQL Server and UTF-8 Defaults

Martin Straub
August 25, 2010Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Unless all MySQL server defaults are set to UTF-8, mysqldump encodes UTF-8 characters incorrectly and only outputs correct UTF-8 when you switch to Latin 1 (!). Also you need to setup charset and collation manually for each new database.

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To prevent this, make sure your /etc/mysql/my.cnf looks like this:

[mysqld]
default-character-set = utf8mb4
collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci

[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8mb4

After that do

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart
Posted by Martin Straub to makandra dev (2010-08-25 16:33)