Why does MySql have 'utf8' for collation on its information_schema but latin1_swedish on all other d

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Published on 2010-06-07T04:01:14Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 4:02 UTC
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Using the latest version of MySql. I created a database, it defaulted to Latin1_Swedish, and just noticed that the 'mysql' database also has Latin1_Swedish. Only the information_schema has a collation of utf8_general_ci. Should I be changing my database to utf8? And if so, how?

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