change default collation in phpmyadmin

Question

It seems to me that phpMyAdmin imports tables by default with collation latin1_swedish_ci, how i change this?

Answer 1

In your Mysql configuration change the default-character-set operative under the [mysqld] tab. For example:

[mysqld]
default-character-set=utf8

Don't forget to restart your Mysql server afterwards for the changes to take effect.