Doctrine2: How to set all tables to collate with UTF8

Question

I am using Doctrine with Symfony2. My config.yml file looks something like this:-

Doctrine Configuration

doctrine:
    dbal:
        driver: %data         


        

Answer 1

Use code below to set collation, engine and charset (annotation example):

/**
* @ORM\Table(
*     name="temporary", 
*     options={"collate":"utf8_general_ci", "charset":"utf8", "engine":"MyISAM"}
* )  
* @ORM\Entity
*/    

Source: http://doctrine-orm.readthedocs.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/latest/reference/annotations-reference.html#annref-column