title: MySQL error unknown collation
body: <p>After attempting to run a migration in Laravel 4 I received the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[PDOException]                                              
  SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1273 Unknown collation: ''
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my database connection configuration;</p>
  
  <pre><code>'mysql' =&gt; array(
      'driver'   =&gt; 'mysql',
      'host'     =&gt; 'localhost',
      'unix_socket'   =&gt; '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock',
      'database' =&gt; 'database',
      'username' =&gt; 'root',
      'password' =&gt; 'root',
      'charset'  =&gt; 'utf8',
      'prefix'   =&gt; '',
  ),
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?</p>