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> "utf8mb4" correctly encodes all UTF-8 codepoints by current standards. Yes, all good and known, but not really what the misunderstanding is about. "utf8" fo
by daneel_w 5y ago
> "utf8mb4" correctly encodes all UTF-8 codepoints by current standards.
Yes, all good and known, but not really what the misunderstanding is about.
"utf8" follows the definitions of UTF-8 as they stood at the time, adhering to Unicode's former code space limit.
- butlerm 5y agoMySQL's adoption of a utf8mb3 limitation for "utf8" was over seven years obsolete when it was adopted. It would have been obsolete in 1996.