Question

I am a newbie!
I had modified default-character-set=utf8 and character-set-server=utf8 in the file named my.ini.
But the generated table has TABLE_COLLATION=latin1_swedish_ci

Note:the table generated by JPA hibernate-implements:

Answer 1

If you did not specified charset/collation in CREATE TABLE statement, then new table will be created with database charset/collation.

So, for existed database with latin1 charset you should do something like this –

CREATE TABLE table1 (
  column1 VARCHAR(20),
  column2 VARCHAR(20)
)
CHARACTER SET utf8
COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

---

-- show current database name
SELECT DATABASE();

-- show CREATE DATABASE statement with charset\collation for DB
SHOW CREATE DATABASE <database name>;