UTF-8 but still latin1_swedish_ci?

Richard G

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I'm a bit confuse.

Most of my databases are in UTF-8. Now I created a new database, installed a forum which uses UTF8MB4_unicode_ci.

But when I look into phpmyadmin, i still see latin1_swedish_ci at the bottom of the pages, is that correct? Why does it not say utf8mb4 there too?

I put in a screenshot so you can see.

https://i.postimg.cc/Jz4ZJSgT/utf8.png
 
Hello Richard,

That's a default charset for the DB itself. It's set on a new DB creation which is done by Directadmin.
 
One is the default database charset - it is used when you create new table and do NOT specify charset for it (it will use the database charset). The others are the specific tables charsets.
 
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