diff --git a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/MySQL5Dialect.java b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/MySQL5Dialect.java
index 94abe480..70edf93e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/MySQL5Dialect.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/commafeed/backend/MySQL5Dialect.java
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ import org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect;
 public class MySQL5Dialect extends MySQL5InnoDBDialect {
 
 	public String getTableTypeString() {
-		return " ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4";
+		return " ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8";
 	}
 }
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