How do I change a MySQL table to UTF-8?

Question

I know there are many settings for a language for a table and a database.

I already created the database. I believe when I created it, it was default/LATIN. I want

Answer 1

Add to your my.cnf this:

[mysqld]
character-set-server=utf8
default-collation=utf8_unicode_ci

And restart mysqld deamon.

ADDED:

ALTER DATABASE your_base_name CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;

and my.cnf

SET collation_connection     = utf8_unicode_ci;
SET character_set_results    = utf8;
SET character_set_connection = utf8;
SET character_set_client     = utf8;