Creating tables in PHPmyadmin

I am creating a new table and wondering what to put in some boxes. (I am very new to this :))

In the dropdown “Collation” I have been choosing…

utf8_general_ci

Was wondering if this was correct?

There is no correct answer, it depends on what you’re storing and how you want it to work. Collation defines the ordering of letters in a language. It’s what the database will use to determine whether “apple” comes before or after “bear” when sorting by a text column.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/charset-general.html