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README: update default collation to utf8mb4_general_ci (#1054)

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`465`	`465`	`### Unicode support`
`466`		-Since version 1.1 Go-MySQL-Driver automatically uses the collation `utf8_general_ci` by default.
	`466`	+Since version 1.5 Go-MySQL-Driver automatically uses the collation ` utf8mb4_general_ci` by default.
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`468`	`468`	Other collations / charsets can be set using the [`collation`](#collation) DSN parameter.
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`470`	`470`	Version 1.0 of the driver recommended adding `&charset=utf8` (alias for `SET NAMES utf8`) to the DSN to enable proper UTF-8 support. This is not necessary anymore. The [`collation`](#collation) parameter should be preferred to set another collation / charset than the default.
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`472`		`-See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-unicode.html for more details on MySQL's Unicode support.`
	`472`	`+See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode.html for more details on MySQL's Unicode support.`
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`474`	`474`	`## Testing / Development`
`475`	`475`	`To run the driver tests you may need to adjust the configuration. See the [Testing Wiki-Page](https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql/wiki/Testing "Testing") for details.`

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