No, you have to change the *character set* of a column. It's unfortunate they us...

		nknighthb on Feb 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unicode support in MySQL is... No, you have to change the character set of a column. It's unfortunate they used a name normally used for an encoding to name a character set, but that doesn't make the character set an encoding.