Ubuntu Modify MySQL Default encoding method

Ubuntu uses apt-get after installing MySQL, the server's default encoding is Latin1, the following changes the server's code to UTF8.

Coding related information:

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mysql> show variables like ‘character%‘;+--------------------------+----------------------------+| Variable_name            | Value                      |+--------------------------+----------------------------+| character_set_client     | utf8                       || character_set_connection | utf8                       || character_set_database   | latin1                     || character_set_filesystem | binary                     || character_set_results    | utf8                       || character_set_server     | latin1                     || character_set_system     | utf8                       || character_sets_dir       | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/|+--------------------------+----------------------------+

You can see that both the Character_set_database and character_set_server codes are latin1.

Modify the MySQL encoding

Open the MySQL configuration file/etc/mysql/my.cnf

1	vim /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Append in [mysqld]

1	character-set-server=utf8

After saving, restart MySQL.

1	/etc/init.d/mysqlrestart

The code is correct.

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mysql> show variables like ‘character%‘;+--------------------------+----------------------------+| Variable_name            | Value                      |+--------------------------+----------------------------+| character_set_client     | utf8                       || character_set_connection | utf8                       || character_set_database   | utf8                       || character_set_filesystem | binary                     || character_set_results    | utf8                       || character_set_server     | utf8                       || character_set_system     | utf8                       || character_sets_dir       | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/|+--------------------------+----------------------------+

Complete.

Ubuntu Modify MySQL Default encoding method