The good news is they are changing the defaults in 5.8: http://mysqlserverteam.com/sushi-beer-an-introduction-of-utf8-support-in-mysql-8-0/ http://mysqlserverte

The good news is they are changing the defaults in 5.8: http://mysqlserverteam.com/sushi-beer-an-introduction-of-utf8-support-in-mysql-8-0/ http://mysqlserverteam.com/sushi-beer-an-introduction-of-utf...