Currently we are using the following commands in PHP to set the character set to UTF-8 in our application.
Since this is a bit of overhead, we’d like to set this as the default setting in MySQL. Can we do this in /etc/my.cnf or in another location?
SET NAMES 'utf8'
SET CHARACTER SET utf8
I’ve looked for a default charset in /etc/my.cnf, but there’s nothing there about charsets.
At this point, I did the following to set the MySQL charset and collation variables to UTF-8:
skip-character-set-client-handshake
character_set_client=utf8
character_set_server=utf8
Is that a correct way to handle this?
