From c85d47befc8185ba833c7ebc81572ee4c8d35281 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Tselegidis <alextselegidis@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 18:28:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Change the default charset and collation

---
 application/config/database.php | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/application/config/database.php b/application/config/database.php
index ceda801a..7073044e 100644
--- a/application/config/database.php
+++ b/application/config/database.php
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ $db['default']['pconnect'] = TRUE;
 $db['default']['db_debug'] = TRUE;
 $db['default']['cache_on'] = FALSE;
 $db['default']['cachedir'] = '';
-$db['default']['char_set'] = 'utf8';
-$db['default']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8_general_ci';
+$db['default']['char_set'] = 'utf8mb4';
+$db['default']['dbcollat'] = 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci';
 $db['default']['swap_pre'] = '';
 $db['default']['autoinit'] = TRUE;
 $db['default']['stricton'] = FALSE;