Recomended CHARSET/COLLATION for bring almost every character

Question

I don't know if it possible or not but exists any CHARSET/COLLATION that holds almost every character in the world? I mean for example: á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ for spanish, characters for french and portuguese and so on? Any advice on this? How did yours handle multi-language sites at DB modeling level?

PS: Don't know if this is the right place to ask this if not my apologies

Answer 1

Yes, you should use a UTF-8 charset with a utf8_general_ci collation.