Unknown collation: ‘utf8mb4_unicode_ci’

When trying to import MySQL dumps from newer servers to older servers you may get:

or:

The quick and dirty solution is to do a search and replace on the database dump changing “utf8mb4_unicode_ci” and “utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci” to “utf8_unicode_ci”.

This can be accomplished with sed:

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