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'
 ) {