COLLATION 'utf8_general_ci' is not valid for CHARACTER SET 'latin1'

Question

I am trying to fix a character encoding issue - previously we had the collation set for this column utf8_general_ci which caused issues because it is accent insensitive..

Answer 1

The same error is produced in MariaDB (10.1.36-MariaDB) by using the combination of parenthesis and the COLLATE statement. My SQL was different, the error was the same, I had:

SELECT *
FROM table1
WHERE (field = 'STRING') COLLATE utf8_bin;

Omitting the parenthesis was solving it for me.

SELECT *
FROM table1
WHERE field = 'STRING' COLLATE utf8_bin;