diff --git a/scripts/createMySqlDb.sql b/scripts/createMySqlDb.sql
index 7304f906c..e1bf8808b 100644
--- a/scripts/createMySqlDb.sql
+++ b/scripts/createMySqlDb.sql
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 CREATE USER 'filterlists'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
-CREATE DATABASE filterlistsdata CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
+CREATE DATABASE filterlistsdata CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin;
 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON filterlistsdata.* TO 'filterlists'@'localhost';
 FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
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