Alter WP tables char set and collation to UTF8.

Used when default UTF8-mb4 is not an option for you staging or production environment - MT Grid anyone?

Use at your own risk and only on new installations with fresh database: altering tables this way could lead to unwanted data loss.

wp package install welaika/wp-cli-db2utf8

Use it from inside the root of a WordPress installation

NAME

  wp db2utf8

DESCRIPTION

  Convert database's tables in UTF8. Used to downgrade the UTF8-mb4 encoding

SYNOPSIS

  wp db2utf8

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