How can I change my MySQL collation in WAMPSERVER

Question

How can I change my MySQL collation in WAMPSERVER from latin1_swedish_ci to UTF-8 because I think my HTML special characters are getting all messed up

Answer 1

put in your C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.5.24\my.ini:

character-set-server=utf8    
collation-server=utf8_general_ci