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> That an encoding can encode a particular value does not mean all applications using that encoding will support that value. And yet you have to change the enc
by perlgeek 13y ago
> That an encoding can encode a particular value does not mean all applications using that encoding will support that value.
And yet you have to change the encoding of a column to support storage of non-BMP characters, even though the UTF-8 encoding supports them just fine. Where's the sense in that?
- nknighthb 13y agoNo, you have to change the character set of a column. It's unfortunate they used a name normally used for an encoding to name a character set, but that doesn't make the character set an encoding.