diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 2d85cd4431..29d0b4bddf 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ phpMyAdmin - ChangeLog
 - issue #12054 Fixed processing of queries with escaped quotes
 - issue #12041 Fixed exporting tables with fields DEFAULT and COMMENT
 - issue #12073 Hide edit and delete buttons when the results are not related to a table
+- issue #12083 Fixed parsing of field definition
 
 4.5.5.1 (2016-02-29)
 - issue #11971 CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index type is not recognized by parser.
diff --git a/libraries/tbl_columns_definition_form.inc.php b/libraries/tbl_columns_definition_form.inc.php
index 1dc5abeb1f..4fa2de4b7c 100644
--- a/libraries/tbl_columns_definition_form.inc.php
+++ b/libraries/tbl_columns_definition_form.inc.php
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ for ($columnNumber = 0; $columnNumber < $num_fields; $columnNumber++) {
     // differs from the ones of the corresponding database.
     // rtrim the type, for cases like "float unsigned"
     $type = rtrim(
-        mb_ereg_replace('[\w\W]character set[\w\W]*', '', $type)
+        preg_replace('/[\s]character set[\s][\S]+/', '', $type)
     );
 
     /**