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

Just solved it, (using mysql 5.5 (5.5.29)) with Linux Mint 13 Mate (based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)

I added these lines on /etc/mysqld/my.cnf

[client]
default-character-set = utf8

[mysqld]
init_connect='SET collation_connection = utf8_unicode_ci'
character-set-server = utf8
collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci

This way, SQL queries worked on shell as it should, but on laravel or phpmyadmin etc, they didn't work. So I did this:

I opened /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset and removed the ; from this line:

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

Then I restarted apache2 and mysql, now it works as it should.

Later Edit: That GitHub Core Hack works like a treat. I ended up doing it.