The behavior of collate has changed in doctrine: http://www.doctrine-project.org/jira/browse/DDC-2139
The collation is now set to utf8_unicode_ci if you don’t specify anything at the table level. The way to go right now is to add it to options in your table declaration:
/**
* @ORM\Table(options={"collate"="utf8_swedish_ci"})
* @ORM\Entity
*/
This will generate the correct collation for the table:
$ php app/console doctrine:schema:update --dump-sql --env=test | grep swedish
... DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_swedish_ci ENGINE = InnoDB;
I’ve filed an issue for the documentation to be updated to reflect this behaviour.