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

I'm stuck on the same, I guess there is no way in Laravel to change/set collation of the charset. But you can change the default collation for charset in your my.ini/my.cnf of your MySQL Server!

[mysqld]
#...
collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci
#...