In MYSQL when installing flarum database which "Collation" should you use?

Wellwisher

-What's the default choice that people should be using?
-Does it matter?
-Does choosing the wrong option slow the forum down?

Valeyard

Leave it on the default character set. FWIW mine is utf8mb4_general_ci but I didn't explicitly set it when I created the database. What front-end is that?

MariaDB [flarum]> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'collation%';
+----------------------+--------------------+
| Variable_name        | Value              |
+----------------------+--------------------+
| collation_connection | utf8mb4_general_ci |
| collation_database   | utf8mb4_general_ci |
| collation_server     | utf8mb4_general_ci |
+----------------------+--------------------+
3 rows in set (0.001 sec)

Wellwisher

Valeyard so I am attempting to create a new database for flarum in WAMP localhost. This is within PHPmyadmin panel. Thank you. I believe utf8mb4_general_ci was the same for simplemachines forum. Seems to be the mainstream default choice.

Valeyard

Oh okay, I see you've got a forum already so this would be for testing/development?

Yeah I would have though UTF-8 would be standard. I don't think it would matter though, Flarum probably just converts the database Collation to whatever it wants on first install.