Mea culpa, this is not a solution: > - using 'character-sets-dir=utf8mb4'.
> - the one you suggested 'loose-default-character-set=utf8mb4'; This is a solution, and you can also just comment it: '# default-character-set=utf8mb4';' Problem is that this impacts other mysql clients program. So one suggestion would be to make 'mysqlbinlog' recognize 'default-character-set' option. Faustin
