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		echelon on Jan 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016) Well, that sounds great, but I've had to migrate numerous fields to utf8mb4 because we kept getting paged on emoji.

daneel_w on Jan 12, 2022 | [–]

Same. Inbound SMSes with emojis. Outbound SMSes with emojis. Names and labels with emojis etc. But the implementation of "utf8" still isn't wrong, nor a bug - just like the 20 year old specs of UTF-8, they just failed to take the future into account.

chris_wot on Jan 12, 2022 | [–]

The OP is wrong about the article being incorrect.

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