Thanks for sharing this. I looked it up on SO [1] and since I'm from Germany, I'll stay with utf8_unicode_ci. > For examples, the Unicode collation sorts "ß" l

Thanks for sharing this. I looked it up on SO [1] and since I'm from Germany, I'll stay with utf8_unicode_ci. > For examples, the Unicode collation sorts "ß" like "ss", and "Œ" like "OE" as people using those characters would normally want, whereas utf8mb4_general_ci sorts them as single characters (presumably like "s" and "e" respectively). [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/766996/104959 http://stackoverflow.com/a/766996/104959