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They have. It's the default in MySQL 8.
by ofrzeta 8y ago
They have. It's the default in MySQL 8.
- kreetx 8y agoSorry, should have bern more clear: why didn't they fix the bug in utf8 so that it is correct (and would do what utf8mb4 does now)? It's just that the obvious choice of 'utf8' has been plain wrong for a long time.
- shadofx 8y agofrom the article: >Once MySQL published this invalid character set, it could never fix it: that would force every user to rebuild every database.