Bug #26260 Set Default Character Set to UTF-8
Submitted: 10 Feb 2007 19:21 Modified: 18 Jan 2018 13:06
Reporter: Olaf van der Spek (Basic Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Closed Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Installing Severity:S4 (Feature request)
Version:* OS:Any (*)
Assigned to: CPU Architecture:Any
Tags: qc

[10 Feb 2007 19:21] Olaf van der Spek 
Description:
Hi,

The installer for Windows sets the character set to latin1 by default. Could this be changed to UTF-8?
It'd be nice to make that change for new installations on other platforms too.

How to repeat:
Run the installer (5.1) for Windows and don't change the defaults.
[30 Apr 2007 18:14] Valeriy Kravchuk 
Thank you for a reasonable feature request.
[23 Jul 2009 14:38] Olaf van der Spek 
More than two years have past... Is there any chance to still get this done for 5.4?
[26 Dec 2009 11:29] Olaf van der Spek 
Somebody?
[18 Jan 2018 13:06] Erlend Dahl 
[28 Dec 2017 19:29] Xing Z Zhang 

Fixed in 8.0.1 by changing default to utf8mb4 (WL#7554).