Title: Help me selecting the data base
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Help me selecting the data base

 *  [xinfo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xinfo/)
 * (@xinfo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me-selecting-the-data-base/)
 * Hi
 * I am installing new blog manually with out using
    Fantastico
 * in myphpadmin i find list of utf-8
 * I am confused which one to select
 * My blog default Lang: English
 * Plan to add translation plugin
 * Any suggestion plz

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me-selecting-the-data-base/#post-490493)
 * UTF-8 is the universal encoding that works for all languages in the same time.
 *  Thread Starter [xinfo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xinfo/)
 * (@xinfo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me-selecting-the-data-base/#post-490528)
 * Ok .Under the UTF-8 there is of other UTF option is there so which one i should
   select ,so that i won’t have any issue when i active translation plugin
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-me-selecting-the-data-base/#post-490535)
 * As far as I see it’s only one for character encoding and more choices for “collation”–
   at least in my phpmyadmin.
 * Anyway, I’d go with the **utf-8 Unicode** and for the collation – **utf8_unicode_ci**:
   that’s the multilingual, international = usable with any language.
 * (Note. Some older DBs work quite fine with encoding utf-8 and collation latin1_swedish_ci.
   I don’t know why…)

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