diff --git a/nextcloud_install_production.sh b/nextcloud_install_production.sh
index 99433bd5..a6d03e9f 100644
--- a/nextcloud_install_production.sh
+++ b/nextcloud_install_production.sh
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ for db in $databases; do
     if [[ "$db" != "performance_schema" ]] && [[ "$db" != _* ]] && [[ "$db" != "information_schema" ]];
     then
         echo "Changing to UTF8mb4 on: $db"
-        mysql -u root -p"$MARIADB_PASS" -e "ALTER DATABASE $db CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci;"
+        mysql -u root -p"$MARIADB_PASS" -e "ALTER DATABASE $db CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;"
     fi
 done
 #if [ $? -ne 0 ]