Inconsistent table encoding?

[tbelknapsgs]

I've got a database that I've developed over time using Phinx. One issue I discovered along the way was that the tables were formatted using the latin1 character set and cp1252 West European encoding. So while consolidating Phinx migrations, I started explicitly setting the encoding as seen below:

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

use Migrations\AbstractMigration;

class CreateCarts extends AbstractMigration
{
    /**
     * Change Method.
     *
     * More information on this method is available here:
     * https://book.cakephp.org/phinx/0/en/migrations.html#the-change-method
     * @return void
     */
    public function change()
    {
        $table = $this->table('carts', [
            'encoding' => 'utf8mb4',
            'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
            ])
            ->addColumn('user_id', 'integer', [
                'default' => null,
                'null' => false,
                ])
            ->addColumn('cart_status', 'string', [
                'default' => 'active',
                'null' => false,
                ])
            ->addColumn('created', 'datetime', [
                'default' => null,
                'null' => false,
            ])
            ->addColumn('modified', 'datetime', [
                'default' => null,
                'null' => false,
            ])
            ->addColumn('cart_total', 'float', [
                'default' => null,
            ]);
        $table->create();
    }
}

However, when reviewing the tables, I discovered that not all of the tables are properly encoded despite explicitly being set in the options array shown here? Some do indeed take the UTF-8 multibyte encoding and some do not.

There are no other, altering migrations any longer because I consolidated them: only one migration creates a database and it does not get altered futher in the migration process. Any idea why this would be?

[MasterOdin]

You could try the --dry-run flag to see a print of all create commands that get run to see if any are missing the encoding / collation arguments?