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

I met the same problems. By search the code, I find the code in vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/Platforms/MySqlPlatform.php

if ( ! isset($options['collate'])) {
  $options['collate'] = 'utf8_unicode_ci';
}

So I changed it to 'utf8_general_ci', and it worked. All of tables' collation changed to utf8_general_ci after rebuild, but I still have one question: when I changed the annotations, I got the following error message:

[Creation Error] The annotation @ORM\Table declared on class Gvsun\UserBundle\Entity\User does not have a property named "collation". Available properties: name, schema, indexes, uniqueConstraints, options

I search the documentation of Doctrine, but I didn't find the 'option' property, can someone tell me how to use options property, I think it might be able to change collate in annotations settings?