change default collation in phpmyadmin

Question

It seems to me that phpMyAdmin imports tables by default with collation latin1_swedish_ci, how i change this?

Answer 1

For Linux:

1. You need to have access to the MySQL config file.
   The location can vary from /etc/mysql/my.cnf to ~/my.cnf (user directory).

2. Add the following lines in the section [mysqld]:

   collation_server = utf8_unicode_ci
   character_set_server=utf8
   

3. Restart the server:

   service mysqld restart
   

Answer 2

I wanted to use utf8mb4 instead, and the configuration had to be the following:

collation_server = utf8mb4_general_ci
character_set_server=utf8mb4

the server would not start if the character_set was set to utf8

Answer 3

know this is an old post. But the way i changed the default charset through phpMyAdmin was:

phpMyadmin main page > Variables tab (Server variables and settings) > searched for "character" and changed all variables from "latin1" to "utf8". (on a MAMP installation with phpMyAdmin v. 3.5.7)

And as the others said, this is the variables for MySQL and not some phpMyAdmin specific ones.

Answer 4

For utf8mb4, add/change the following in the [mysqld] section:

collation_server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci
character_set_server = utf8mb4

Then restart the mysql service (for Ubuntu the command is sudo service mysql restart)

Answer 5

In your Mysql configuration change the default-character-set operative under the [mysqld] tab. For example:

[mysqld]
default-character-set=utf8

Don't forget to restart your Mysql server afterwards for the changes to take effect.

Answer 6

1. Insert this strings into my.ini (or my.cnf)

[mysqld]
collation_server = utf8_unicode_ci
character_set_server=utf8

2. Add into config.inc.php

$cfg['DefaultConnectionCollation'] = 'utf8_general_ci';

3. You need to restart MySQL server and remove cookies,data for domain where is located PhpMyAdmin

4. Reload page with PhpMyAmdin and at look the result