Recommended database charset and collation for Drupal 8

February 16, 2023

The recommended charset is:

utf8mb4

And the recommended collation is:

utf8mb4_unicode_ci

The recommendation used to be utf8mb4_general_ci but sorting is better with utf8mb4_unicode_ci.

More info: https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/166405

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