Mysql change column collation and character set of information schema

Question

I want to change column collation and character set of system database information_schema...

Can anyone give any input on how to do this? Is there any special priv

Answer 1

alter table some_table convert to character set utf8;

awesome that worked great as far as i can tell for me, now i can use chinese in that tables!! and i can remove all the utf8_encode() utf8_decode() throughout my site!