[LRUG] MySQL/Rails Collation

[Matthew Willson]

>> Why anyone thought latin1 with swedish collation was a good default setting
>> is beyond me, but hey ho.
> 
> If you find out, I'm prepared to help with meting out the
> appropriately brutal punishment they deserve.

Well, MySQL AB is based in Sweden :)

This has bitten me in the arse too many times too, to the point where adding a "default character set utf8 collate utf8_general_ci" to every "create database" statement has now become reflexive.

-Matt