How to change the encoding mysql does not understand Russian?

Question

MySQL

Please help, I created the database, everything works fine, but the Russian language does not understand! writes scribbles, everything is ok with English
how to fix it?

Answer 1

Something like this:

ALTER DATABASE <database_name> CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

ALTER TABLE <table_name> CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;