MySQL Default to UTF-8 & MyISAM

mcedit /etc/mysql/my.cnf


[mysqld] 
init_connect='SET collation_connection = utf8_general_ci' 
init_connect='SET NAMES utf8' 
character-set-server=utf8 
collation-server=utf8_general_ci
skip-character-set-client-handshake
default-storage-engine=MyISAM

Result is

mysql> show variables like "%character%";show variables like "%collation%";

+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| 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)

+----------------------+-----------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+----------------------+-----------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_unicode_ci |
| collation_database | utf8_unicode_ci |
| collation_server | utf8_unicode_ci |
+----------------------+-----------------+