title: UTF-8 only in Grails 1.1 database tables
body: <p>When using Grails 1.1 together with a MySQL the charsets of the auto-generated database tables seem to default to ISO-8859-1. I'd rather have everything stored as pure UTF-8. Is that possible?</p>
  
  <p>From the auto-generated database definitions:</p>
  
  <pre><code>ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=1 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Note the "latin1" part.</p>
  
  <p>A work-around that works for Grails 1.0 is described <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/481541/utf-8-only-in-grails-database-tables">here</a>. This work-arounds does not appear to work when using Grails 1.1. The dataSource.dialect parameter seems to be ignored.</p>