diff --git a/conf/config.php b/conf/config.php
index 59b766f..614c836 100644
--- a/conf/config.php
+++ b/conf/config.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 	putenv('TTRSS_DB_PASS=__DB_PWD__');
 	putenv('TTRSS_DB_PORT=3306'); // usually 5432 for PostgreSQL, 3306 for MySQL
 
-	putenv('TTRSS_MYSQL_CHARSET=UTF8');
+	putenv('TTRSS_MYSQL_CHARSET=UTF8MB4');
 	// Connection charset for MySQL. If you have a legacy database and/or experience
 	// garbage unicode characters with this option, try setting it to a blank string.