title: How do i Setup utf-8 as standard character set for a mysql server?
body: <p>do i have to recompile it?</p>
  
  <p>i figured out diffent ways of setting the character set values see </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset.html" rel="nofollow">http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset.html</a></p>
  
  <p>but starting it with other values or my.cnf settings changed nothing. Because if i do:</p>
  
  <p>sudo mysqld --verbose --help | grep charact</p>
  
  <p>it always answers me latin1 as standard charset.
  the system is ubuntu lts server with a standard mysql install.</p>