Information schema not accessable in C# using MySql connector

I am using C# (.NET 5.0) and the MySql connector (8.0.26) to query the information schema about database details. This worked fine with MariaDb 10.5

With MariaDb 10.6.4, I get an exception that utf8mb3 is not supported whenever I try to query anything from the information schema.
Here is an example code to reproduce the issue:

string sql = $@"SELECT SCHEMA_NAME FROM `information_schema`.`SCHEMATA` ";
MySqlCommand cmd = new MySqlCommand(sql, conn);
var reader = cmd.ExecuteReader();

This worked fine on MariaDb 10.5

See the attached file for the full example code. The MySql connector does not support uft8mb3 anymore. (It is deprecated by Oracle/MySql and won't be supported in the future).

I guess this issue is related to the fact that the information schema has now the collation uft8mb3 by default. I tried to configure my server that Uft8mb4 is the default collation for all databases, but I can't change the collation for the information schema: