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They probably couldn't even if they wanted to, by this point there will be too much software out there depending on "utf8" meaning "MySQL's weird proprietary ha
by smacktoward 7y ago
They probably couldn't even if they wanted to, by this point there will be too much software out there depending on "utf8" meaning "MySQL's weird proprietary hacked-up version of UTF-8".
The only real solution is to hammer home the message that "utf8mb4" is what you put into MySQL if you want UTF-8.
- cosarara 7y agoThere are acual problems too, when switching from utf8mb3 to utf8mb4, because of maximum varchar length in indices: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48500355/mysql-character-set-utf8mb4-varchar-length https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48500355/mysql-character...