php mysql SET NAMES 'utf8' COLLATE 'utf8_unicode_ci' doesn't work with mysqli

Question

I am migrating my site into php mysqli from php mysql_* methods.

I had following code that did the job:

mysql_query(\"SET NAMES \'utf8\' COLLA

Answer 1

$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","admin","1234","web");
$con->set_charset("utf8");