Suggestion: set database character set in index.php

It could be useful for some, especially those who don't use English in their shops, to be able to define the database collation, to make sure the data is being stored and retrieved in the correct encoding.
For utf-8 that would be: right under There might be more to this, but since utf-8 seems to be supported everywhere in OpenCart, this should do the job nicely for most people.