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

I wanted to use utf8mb4 instead, and the configuration had to be the following:

collation_server = utf8mb4_general_ci
character_set_server=utf8mb4

the server would not start if the character_set was set to utf8