According to the docs, MySQL is a bit more explicit and calls the old "utf8" "utf8mb3" nowadays, and notes that it may be removed at some point. Although "utf8"

According to the docs, MySQL is a bit more explicit and calls the old "utf8" "utf8mb3" nowadays, and notes that it may be removed at some point. Although "utf8" is still aliased to the footgun at the moment. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode-utf8.html https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode-utf8...