Make sure the SQLite on Android uses UTF-8 as a charset

Question

I am developing an Android application using SQLite as backend.

I want to make sure all the tables in the database use UTF-8. How can I achieve that?

I have

Answer 1

Given that sqlite only supports UTF-8 and UTF-16 as the encodings, you would have noticed if Android would create databases in something other than UTF-8. sqlite3_open defaults to create the database in UTF-8, and that is what Android is likely to use.