How to change the default collation of a table?

Question

create table check2(f1 varchar(20),f2 varchar(20));

creates a table with the default collation latin1_general_ci;

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Answer 1

may need to change the SCHEMA not only table

ALTER SCHEMA ``  DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4  DEFAULT COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci (as Rich said - utf8mb4);

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