Hi,
You can set charset and collation when creating a new table, using SQL. You have to add Default charset and Collation to your SQL query:
CREATE TABLE users (
user_id INT(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,
user_name VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
user_surname VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
user_email VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
user_registration_date DATETIME NOT NULL,
user_status VARCHAR(1) ) DEFAULT CHARSET utf8, COLLATE utf8_general_ci;