How to change the default charset of a MySQL table?

Question

There is a MySQL table which has this definition taken from SQLYog Enterprise :

Table              Create Table                             


        

Answer 1

You can change the default with an alter table set default charset but that won't change the charset of the existing columns. To change that you need to use a alter table modify column.

Changing the charset of a column only means that it will be able to store a wider range of characters. Your application talks to the db using the mysql client so you may need to change the client encoding as well.