diff --git a/manifests/db/mysql.pp b/manifests/db/mysql.pp
index 82273ae..e2130f0 100644
--- a/manifests/db/mysql.pp
+++ b/manifests/db/mysql.pp
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ class neutron::db::mysql (
$user = 'neutron',
$host = '127.0.0.1',
$allowed_hosts = undef,
- $charset = 'latin1',
+ $charset = 'utf8',
$cluster_id = 'localzone'
) {