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

MySQL DB « change Collation Name of a Database|Table to utf8_general_ci inorder to support Unicode.

Change Configuration settings file also

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XAMPP: uncomment UTF 8 Settings from the Configuration settings file « D:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini

## UTF 8 Settings
#init-connect=\'SET NAMES utf8\'
collation_server=utf8_unicode_ci
character_set_server=utf8
skip-character-set-client-handshake
character_sets-dir="D:/xampp/mysql/share/charsets"

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For MySQL server to support UTF8 and the below line of code in file my.cnf

## UTF 8 Settings
collation_server=utf8_unicode_ci
character_set_server=utf8

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@see

• XAMPP - Apache Virtual Host Setting
• XAMPP security concept - Error 403,404