Change MySQL default character set to UTF-8 in my.cnf?

Question

Currently we are using the following commands in PHP to set the character set to UTF-8 in our application.

Since this is a bit of overhead, we\'d like to set this a

Answer 1

The directive has changed to character-set-system=utf8

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/charset-configuration.html