Open AMPPS control panel --> MySQL tab --> configuration
Adjust so that you have these lines added/corrected:
[client]default-character-set=utf8
[mysql]
default-character-set=utf8
[mysqld]
collation-server = utf8_unicode_ci
init-connect='SET NAMES utf8'
character-set-server = utf8
Restarted and next joomla 3.4.1 install via Softaculous did have collation utf8_generic_ci