> You have to explicitly ask for utf8mb4 to get sane behavior. Here's more information about the difference between utf8 and utfmb4 in MySQL, in case anyone is

> You have to explicitly ask for utf8mb4 to get sane behavior. Here's more information about the difference between utf8 and utfmb4 in MySQL, in case anyone is wondering: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30074553 https://stackoverflow.com/a/30074553 I'd say that in most modern circumstances you probably should just go with utfmb4, unless you have a good reason for doing otherwise (apart from only ever needing to use the BMP, or having some odd storage restrictions). Can anyone come up with an actual good reason to use utf8mb3?