For my fresh installation of ubuntu 22 and mysql 8.0.31.
It is requested to have Collation as utf8_general_ci, but it is not available…
Is it okay to use utf8mb4_general_ci or utf8mb3_general_ci ?
Best regards
Hi cphyan, good question, we are looking at changing from utf8_general_ci to utf8mb4_general_ci, given that the original collation has been deprecated in recent versions of linux. I think if you install with utf8mb4_general_ci set it should be okay, I haven’t tested it myself, but I believe MySQL will handle the new collation internally. Please do let me know if you run into any issues using this during installation.
Thanks for the clarification Sandra 
Will let you know if I bump into anything related.