Hibernate + MySQL: How to set the encoding utf-8 for database and tables

Question

My system runs on Linux Mandriva, RDBMS - MySQL 5. I need to have the database and tables created in UTF-8.

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Answer 1

For those who use Spring Boot: add the characterEncoding=utf8 parameter to your application.properties file to this line:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydatabase?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8&useJDBCCompliantTimezoneShift=true&useLegacyDatetimeCode=false&serverTimezone=UTC