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

Firstly run this query

SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%char%';

You have character_set_server='latin1'

for eg if CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci replace it to CHARSET=latin1 and remove the collate

You are good to go