Laravel 3 Schema Table Column Collation

Question

I\'m learning laravel, and I\'m stuck on a simple process. I want the tables to be generated as UTF-8 but varchar and text fields are like latin-1.

Schema section in gui

Answer 1

Support for MySQL character sets and collation has been added to Laravel 4 . Check this example.

https://github.com/laravel/laravel/pull/897