mxcl/homebrew — pull request #9142 by wireframe (2011-12-16 17:07:43+00:00)
Title: add --charset and --collation options to configure default mysql encodings

This patch allows for mysql installations to use alternate default charset and collations than the current utf8 default.

for example, utf8mb4 is a superset of utf8 which allows for 4byte unicode characters.