Is this a safe way to convert MySQL tables from latin1 to utf-8?

Question

I need to change all the tables in one of my databases from latin1 to utf-8 (with utf8_bin collation).

I have dumped the database, created a test database from it, a

Answer 1

I've done this a few times on production databases in the past (converting from the old standard encoding swedish to latin1), and when MySQL encounters a character that cannot be translated to the target encoding, it aborts the conversion and remains in the unchanged state. Therefor, I'd deem the ALTER TABLE statement working.