COLLATION 'utf8mb4_bin' is not valid for CHARACTER SET 'latin1'

Re: COLLATION 'utf8mb4_bin' is not valid for CHARACTER SET 'latin1'

by Howard Miller -
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The character set and collation handling in MySQL is - shall we say - not one of its best features. I have had loads of weird problems over the years and I like to think that I (more or less) understand how it works.