From 5e1df7049c44b192fecf189b022a506a20661aaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: snipe <snipe@snipe.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:02:55 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Make collation and charset for mysql an env variable

---
 .env.example        | 2 ++
 config/database.php | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.env.example b/.env.example
index cd22ea38e..9bc90e5ed 100644
--- a/.env.example
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ DB_USERNAME=null
 DB_PASSWORD=null
 DB_PREFIX=null
 DB_DUMP_PATH='/usr/bin'
+DB_CHARSET=utf8mb4
+DB_COLLATION=utf8mb4_unicode_ci
 
 # --------------------------------------------
 # OPTIONAL: SSL DATABASE SETTINGS
diff --git a/config/database.php b/config/database.php
index 28a8c85be..77c07f17f 100755
--- a/config/database.php
+++ b/config/database.php
@@ -65,8 +65,8 @@ return [
             'database'  => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
             'username'  => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
             'password'  => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
-            'charset'   => 'utf8mb4',
-            'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
+            'charset'   => env('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8mb4'),
+            'collation' => env('DB_COLLATION', 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci'),
             'prefix'    => env('DB_PREFIX', null),
             'strict'    => false,
             'engine'    => null,