Laravel 5.4 upgrade, converting to utf4mb from utf8

Question

I\'m busy upgrading one of my sites to Laravel 5.4 from 5.3. I noticed when going through the current Github repository that the default character set and collation has been

Answer 1

The database charset and collation is the default for newly created tables. The table settings are the defaults for columns.

Do this for each table:

ALTER TABLE table_name CONVERT TO utf8mb4;