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Unlike its `utf8` encoding, MySQL’s `utf8mb4` encoding offers full Unicode support (including four-byte UTF-8-encoded symbols).

Unlike its utf8 encoding, MySQL’s utf8mb4 encoding offers full Unicode support (including four-byte UTF-8-encoded symbols).

The utf8mb4 character set is useful because nowadays we need support for storing not only language characters but also symbols, newly introduced emojis, and so on.

utf8mb4 has been available since MySQL 5.5.3 (released March 2010).

A nice read on How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases by Mathias Bynens can also shed some light on this.

More information about the utf8mb4 character set may be found on the official MySQL Documentation.

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UTF-8, binary data and special characters issue while reading CSV file in laravel

I am using League/CSV Laravel package to read and manipulate CSV file and save that CSV data into a database but I am facing some issues for some rows only which has some special characters like "45.6 ºF" while reading data from CSV. I have searched…
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JDBC configure utf8mb4 in Properties

I am able to write utf8mb4 characters (e.g ) into a MySQL db table if I first run the command: SET NAMES 'utf8mb4' COLLATE 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci' on the connection: connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, prop) val config: PreparedStatement…
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How to finally set utf8mb4 properly on MySQL?

I'm losing my mind on this issue since yesterday. I'm trying to convert my MySQL database from utf8 to utf8mb4. To do so, I followed those sites/threads : https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4#utf8-to-utf8mb4 , Cannot store emoji in database…
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MySQL returning multiple results for a single emoji

I'm observing some strange MySQL behavior for VARCHAR fields that contain a single emoji. The connection, database and column are all utf8mb4 encoding and collation. There's a table called categories with id and title fields. There's three rows,…
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SET NAMES utf8mb4

We are using Dropwizard, JDBI, MySql 5.6 and mysql connector 5.1.32 and use a Pooled data source. In order to support emojis, the only way I have found is to call the query "SET NAMES utf8mb4" on the connection whenever the connection is obtained.…
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Go is generating unescaped control characters in JSON output due to emoji

I'm having trouble with something in Go and I'm not sure where to look. I'm fetching a UTF-8 string from a MySQL database, and attempting to return it in a JSON response to a client. Different clients react differently, but iOS NSJSONSerialization…
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How can I alter an indexed varchar(255) from utf8 to utf8mb4 and still stay under the 767 max key length?

I have an mysql column that needs to support emoji, and that means converting a utf8 column into a utf8mb4. But my varchar(255) won't fit, so long as the column is indexed (not unique). How can I keep the index, and get the utf8mb4 collation? I've…
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Mysql server does not support 4-byte encoded utf8 characters

I've received a server error running a Data transfer component from Sql Server to MySql db. The error message reads as follows: [MySql][ODBC 5.1 Driver][mysqld-5.0.67-community-nt-log]Server does not support 4-byte encoded UTF8 characters. The…
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How to insert Emoji (UTF8 4 Byte characters) into MySQL < 5.5

I have a website that connects with iPhone and Android users. They sometimes use UTF8MB4 characters (Emoji). When inserting those characters in strings in my MySQL database (formatted UTF8) the data was cropped at the first emoji. Unfortunately, my…
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How do I initialize character set settings for a new RDS MySQL instance

I would like to set the following variable for my Amazon RDS server, where do I provide this setting when I create a new RDS instance? character_set_server=utf8mb4 Note: I want these settings to be permanent and I don't want to modify them every…
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How to save a Chinese character in MySQL

I am unable to save the character on mySQL 5.5. I have tried collation utf8mb4 and utf32. I have to store both Chinese and English characters in the same table.
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ERROR 1300 (HY000): Invalid utf8mb4 character string: 'Paysand'

I was trying to import csv data file using command prompt in MySQL Workbench (mysql Ver 8.0.30 for Win64 on x86_64 (MySQL Community Server - GPL)). Using following steps: mysql> load data local infile 'F:/Data…
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mysql 1300 Invalid utf8mb4 character string: '\\xF0\\x9F\\x91\\x8C' with Unicode emoji

So I'm trying to commit unicode emoji to database (this one especially:) But everytime something with emoji is executed on database this happens: pymysql.err.OperationalError: (1300, "Invalid utf8mb4 character string: '\\xF0\\x9F\\x91\\x8C'") I've…
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Parse from XML, insert to mysql; characters give java.sql.SQLException: Incorrect string value

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Django "Illegal mix of collations" for MySQL utf8mb4 table

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