Можно ли на уровне конфига MySQL my.cnf установить
character_set_database = utf8mb4
На данный момент, он utf8mb3
сейчас
character_set_client = utf8mb4
character_set_connection = utf8mb4
character_set_database = utf8mb3 !!!
character_set_filesystem = binary
character_set_results = utf8mb4
character_set_server = utf8mb4
character_set_system = utf8mb3
collation_connection = utf8mb4_unicode_ci
collation_database = utf8mb3_general_ci
collation_server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci
Часть конфига отвечающая за кодировки MySQL
[client]
default-character-set = utf8mb4
[mysql]
default-character-set = utf8mb4
[mysqld]
init_connect='SET collation_connection = utf8_unicode_ci'
character-set-server = utf8mb4
collation-server=utf8_unicode_ci
skip-character-set-client-handshake
character-set-client-handshake = FALSE
init-connect = 'SET NAMES utf8mb4'
collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci