mysql cannot insert Chinese question

Problem phenomena:

A similar error occurs when inserting Chinese into mysql 5.5

ERROR 1366 (HY000): Incorrect string value: '\xD6\xD0\xCE\xC4' for column
Reasons for the problem:

The Db characterset character set is latin1

Solutions:

Modify the my.ini file in the mysql installation directory to


default-character-set=utf8
character-set-server=utf8

The mysql service then recreates a database.