1 修改mysql的配置文件
/etc/mysql/conf.d/mysql.cnf
在[mysql]的下方加入如下语句:(注：这个文件下没有配置，只有【mysql】)
no-auto-rehash
default-character-set=utf8
/etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
在[mysqld]下加入
socket = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port = 3306
character-set-server=utf8 （这里是server，之前有的版本是set）
2 重启mysql: sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart
3 查看字符集
mysql> show variables like '%char%';+--------------------------+----------------------------+| Variable_name | Value |+--------------------------+----------------------------+| character_set_client | utf8 || character_set_connection | utf8 || character_set_database | utf8 || character_set_filesystem | binary || character_set_results | utf8 || character_set_server | utf8 || character_set_system | utf8 || character_sets_dir | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |+--------------------------+----------------------------+8 rows in set (0.00 sec)注：设置之后如果之前的数据库已经创建了，只能删除重新创建了。