如何使用WampServer更改默认的MySQL数据库/表默认的COLLATION？

Question

just want to ask about my problem. My problem is everytime I created a database. It's default collation is always set to ' latin1_swedish_ci '. But what I want is set this to ' utf8_general_ci ' in DEFAULT . I also added this to my my.ini file in mysql:

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

But it is default in latin1_swedish_ci .

Answer 1

According to the manual , the my.ini is just about the only place where you cannot change this setting. You can either:

1. Change the startup parameters - pass ---character-set-server=latin1 etc. to the startup invocation.
2. Recompile with a different default - probably not really practical with WAMP
3. Change the values at runtime. This only changes them for the session though, and is as such rather pointless for these config values.

I'd look into option 1 for a local WAMP machine.